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
  • First Lady
  • Follower

• 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

• In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Play
  • Photography

• Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

  

  Chris Anderson
  • World
  • Free

• Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Quality
  • Psychology
  • Analysis

• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  

  Annie Besant

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Wisdom
  • Delight
  • Poem

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

  

  Aja Naomi King