Ava DuVernay Quotes
'Diversity' is like, 'Ugh, I have to do diversity.' I recognize and celebrate what it is, but that word, to me, is a disconnect.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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I'm someone that never likes to overpower the girls in hair and makeup.
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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
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You can't succeed in the markets today unless you are part of a great team. The team is the essence of how you win.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.
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I think that Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world, the way it has managed a diverse population, a migrant economy. The natural beauty of Canada is extraordinary. Obviously there is enormous kinship between the United States and Canada, and the ties that bind our two countries together are things that are very important to us.
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'Diversity' is like, 'Ugh, I have to do diversity.' I recognize and celebrate what it is, but that word, to me, is a disconnect.
