Halle Berry Quotes

When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

Halle Berry

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• The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Human
  • Will

• It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Focus
  • Gym
  • Very

• I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Home
  • Football
  • Try

• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Change

• If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sexy

• I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Creative
  • Media
  • Become

• Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Important
  • Experience

• I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Person

• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Accept
  • Mediocrity

• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Man
  • Law
  • Sports

• I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• Bringing buyers and sellers together through a single platform is not a new idea - most of us know about eBay's success - but with advancing technology comes new innovative methods for businesses to connect customers with those who want to offer services.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Together
  • Want
  • Success

• If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Free
  • Religious

• I feel like I can't be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Story
  • Sick

• The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Things
  • Existence
  • Loved

• I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Think
  • Disaster
  • Ship

• So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

  

  Paolo Nutini

• It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Men
  • Money
  • Desire

• I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

  

  Halle Berry