Ashley Madekwe Quotes

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

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• The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Government
  • German

• Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Past
  • Person
  • New

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Together
  • Light

• If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Know
  • Always
  • Name

• I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Church
  • Television

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • Kids
  • Right

• I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Focus
  • Imagination
  • Emotional

• I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Politics
  • Creation
  • Cynical

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Heart
  • Church
  • Heaven

• It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Universe

• In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Country

• We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.

  

  Alicia Machado
  • Men
  • Couple

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• I started in documentaries. I started alone with a camera. Alone. Totally alone. Shooting, editing short documentaries for a French-Canadian part of CBC. So to deal with the camera alone, to approach reality alone, meant so much. I made a few dozen small documentaries, and that was the birth of a way to approach reality with a camera.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Reality
  • Small
  • Alone

• So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Home
  • Vision

• I can't say I'm willing, Lord, but I'm willing to be made willing.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Made
  • Lord
  • Willing

• Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

  

  Ashley Madekwe