Cicely Tyson Quotes

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

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• I would like my kids to study well.

  

  Vijay
  • Kids
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• I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Business
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  • Fun

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
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• Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
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• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • School
  • Day
  • Teachers

• My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Know
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  • Weekend

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.

  

  Warren Kole
  • College
  • Morning
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• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
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• We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Power
  • Plants

• Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Rain
  • Building
  • Count

• On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Look

• When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • Live
  • American
  • Greatness

• She rarely saw priest-and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God-and was not the earth His work, and a church only man’s?-but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • Chicago

• The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Question

• When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

  

  Cicely Tyson
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