Halle Berry Quotes

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• I had long hair when I was a teenager.

  

  Beck
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Teenager

• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Say
  • Finish

• I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • School
  • Friends
  • Song

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Street
  • Trees
  • Other

• I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Work
  • True
  • Day

• When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Sister
  • Young
  • Ugly

• I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Animal
  • Reflect

• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • End

• I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Working
  • Strength
  • Give

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Dreams
  • New

• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy
  • Government
  • Companies
  • Privileges

• Music has always been really important to me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Music
  • Important
  • Me

• 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Women
  • Day
  • End

• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Think
  • Friend

• I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Think
  • Change
  • Inspired

• Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

  

  Halle Berry
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