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

• I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

  

  Mary Cassatt
  • Life
  • Art

• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  

  Albert Lee
  • Music
  • Different
  • Interest

• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  

  Buddha
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

  

  George Eliot
  • Sorrow
  • Renunciation
  • Borne

• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Garment
  • Scrape

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

  

  Ashley Madekwe