Cynthia McKinney Quotes

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

Cynthia McKinney

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• What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Know
  • Road
  • Destination

• You can't live your life through your children.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Important
  • Done
  • Bad

• I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Fighting
  • See
  • Rise Above

• I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Happy

• I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Live
  • Nice

• Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • You
  • Education

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Basketball

• I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Thought
  • Insane
  • Literally

• I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Want
  • City
  • Audience

• I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Chicago

• As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • House

• The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center… in the political sphere… the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Political
  • Small
  • Magic

• The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things...have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Flower
  • Forest
  • Savage

• See, you asked the wrong question. What is good or bad is not my issue. If you pick up things from every nook and cranny and demand answers from me, then aise kaam kaise chalega how will we manage. Whatever my party’s official stand is, I reflect only that.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• A heightened distractibility and a persistent feeling of being rushed or in a hurry, even when there’s no need to be, combined with a mounting feeling of how superficial your life has become: lots to do, but no depth of thought or feeling.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Feeling
  • Hurry

• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Simple
  • Rich
  • Mysterious

• African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

  

  Cynthia McKinney