Cicely Tyson Quotes

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

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• Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Senior
  • Apple
  • Operations

• More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Down

• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Universe

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Land
  • Israel
  • Torah

• Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • American
  • Wall

• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Museum

• It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Same
  • Opportunities
  • Until

• I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

  

  Kanye West
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Chocolate

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Father
  • Son

• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Five

• We tend to live up to our expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Up
  • Live
  • Expectations

• The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Leader
  • First Lady
  • Follower

• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fade

• It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Media

• Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Imperialism

• Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Enjoy
  • Lord
  • Embrace

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral. ... There are great clergy-people who absolutely do not agree with this. It's not whether God is on our side or whether we're doing God's will, it's being so narcissistic as to think that God is telling you what to do.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

  

  Cicely Tyson