Forest Whitaker Quotes
I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.Forest Whitaker
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
Harold Ramis -
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird -
I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
Madchen Amick -
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
Fay Godwin -
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Rafik Hariri -
I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
Veronica Roth -
You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
Laila Ali -
I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
Halsey -
A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
Nancy Gibbs
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
Pat Buchanan -
I have a pig valve.
Barbara Bush -
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson -
If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
Sam Heughan -
There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
Hamza Yusuf -
Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'
Kate Spade
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
Carli Lloyd -
During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
J. Michael Bishop -
If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
Ornette Coleman -
Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
Hanna Rosin -
I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.
Forest Whitaker