Kevin Young Quotes
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.Kevin Young
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Vikram Seth -
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
Carli Lloyd -
I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
Salman Khan -
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
Salma Hayek
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
D. A. Pennebaker -
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Babyface -
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
Maggie Smith -
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford -
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong -
I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
Laura Osnes -
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu -
I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
Becky G -
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
Larisa Oleynik
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.
Maajid Nawaz -
The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
Yves Behar -
If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
Kate del Castillo -
Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the biggest consumer in the world. Which means that a lot of things get used, a lot of things get wasted, and a lot of things get churned out in ways that are wasteful.
Wangechi Mutu -
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.
Kevin Young