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

• 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

• 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

• I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Lifting

• That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Good
  • School
  • Athlete

• Man, according to the Theosophical teaching, is a sevenfold being, or, in the usual phrase a septenary constitution. Putting it yet in another way, man's nature has seven aspects, may be studied from seven different points of view, is composed of Seven Principles.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Different
  • May
  • Nature

• Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Important
  • Past

• Even when I was facing death, I remained full of faith. I did not want to be faithful to God all the way up to serving in Liberia for ten months, only to give up at the end because I was sick.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • Up
  • God
  • Death

• 'Why do they call them vaulters?' 'Vaulters?' 'Voltigeur, Sharpe. French for vaulter.' 'God knows, sir.' 'Because the jump like fleas, sir, when you shoot at them. But don't worry yourself about that one, sir. He's a good voltigeur, that one. He's dead.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Good
  • God
  • Why

• I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.

  

  Lake Bell
  • College
  • Drug

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

  

  Adepero Oduye