Audra McDonald Quotes

I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

Audra McDonald

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• When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Successful

• I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Unique

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Silence

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Country
  • Other
  • Carries

• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • City
  • Boy
  • Bike

• It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Learn
  • Understand

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Like

• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Art
  • Always
  • Theatre

• The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Done

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Like
  • Big

• These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Personal
  • Open

• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Country
  • Best
  • Like

• I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

  

  Bruce Sterling

• It's good to break records, I love it.

  

  Francois Pervis
  • Good

• I love making music, though. I love playing.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Music

• I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life

• Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

  

  Michelle Alexander
  • Opportunity
  • Educational
  • Discrimination

• I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

  

  Audra McDonald