Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
Vicky McClure -
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
Gary Clark Jr. -
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
Irwin Shaw -
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
Tamron Hall -
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt -
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Gates McFadden -
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
Harold Prince -
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
Yoko Ono -
All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
Danica McKellar -
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer -
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
Abigail Spencer -
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards -
'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
Jack Keane
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I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty -
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
Mahesh Babu -
When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.
Liu Bolin -
Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
Albrecht Durer -
The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.
Common