Adepero Oduye Quotes

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

Adepero Oduye

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• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Dad
  • Kind
  • Baseball

• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• Use coconut oil; it is one of the best moisturizers. Use it right after the shower on wet skin and then wipe it off with a towel.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Best
  • Oil
  • Coconut

• It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • May
  • Effort
  • Moral

• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Point
  • Hotel

• I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Think
  • Want
  • Mistake

• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Up
  • Women
  • Nice

• Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Idea
  • Africa
  • Nonsense

• You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

  

  Sally Field
  • Help
  • You
  • Feel

• I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Sound
  • Go

• I think Joe's underappreciated, I think Andy's underappreciated, I think Pete's underappreciated, I don't think people know how good he is. I think Neal Avron's underappreciated, but if anything, I feel overappreciated. I think Patrick Stump gets enough attention.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy

  

  Esther Perel
  • Language
  • Intimacy
  • Connections

• The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Soul
  • Mistakes
  • Safe

• The whole thing about comics is the reason I think you shoot to be a comics author is because it's a very solitary activity and that you sit down and you're arguing with yourself that's kinda the plan.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Author
  • Activity
  • Comics

• I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Teacher
  • Soldier
  • Fish

• I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

  

  Adepero Oduye