Ava DuVernay Quotes
If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.Ava DuVernay
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
Gary Carter -
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
Carly Fiorina -
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
Daniel Espinosa -
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
Dalai Lama -
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del Rey
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
Kaki King -
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
Gayle Forman -
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
Becky G -
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
Dan Marino -
I'm a better polemicist in prose.
Ted Rall
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
Barry Commoner -
If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
Randy Quaid -
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Tecumseh -
A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.
Daniel Bryan -
I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.
Victoria Justice
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I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.
Aslaug Magnusdottir -
We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.
John McCain -
Beware of, Had I wist.
John Heywood -
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
Peter Higgs -
If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.
Ava DuVernay