Kiana Tom Quotes

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• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Night
  • Film
  • Wine

• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • She
  • True

• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Chance

• You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fear

• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Rap

• What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.

  

  Kate Jenkinson
  • Way
  • Comedy
  • Style

• In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • School
  • Week
  • Student

• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Love
  • Necessary

• Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Animal

• Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Life
  • Remember

• Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Forever

• Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun All covered with flowers still having your fun

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Fun
  • Sun
  • Hero

• From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • House
  • Memories
  • Garden

• I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Bored

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Sinister

• Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.

  

  Kiana Tom