Aja Naomi King Quotes

I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'

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• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Care
  • Study

• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Players

• In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Football
  • Opportunities

• I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Like
  • Makeup
  • Where

• Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Day

• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Good
  • Results
  • Got

• There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Today
  • Party
  • Democratic

• I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • You
  • Passionate
  • Involved

• There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Great
  • Music
  • Two

• The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Leader
  • Follower
  • First Lady

• The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Control

• Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • May
  • History

• I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Hands
  • Books
  • Smell

• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Best

• It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Down

• The Dionysian is no picnic.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Picnic
  • Dionysian

• The belief that men don’t need help is part of the problem.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Help

• Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Life
  • Real
  • Ugly

• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Fool
  • Easy
  • Honest

• You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Universe
  • Room
  • Smell

• These little things are very significant.

  

  Agatha Christie

• It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Life
  • Teaching
  • Classroom

• I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'

  

  Aja Naomi King