Clemantine Wamariya Quotes

I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the world. I want to honor all those difficult experiences and acknowledge their aftermath. At the same time, I want to really see and love the world around me.

Clemantine Wamariya

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• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Artist
  • First
  • Portrait

• Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • Me
  • Story

• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fight
  • Find
  • Watch

• If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moral
  • Rich
  • Instincts

• GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

  

  Nas
  • Game
  • Voice
  • Fearless

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Feel

• I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Read
  • Fiction
  • Newspaper

• Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Up
  • Think
  • Stadium

• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • America
  • Kings

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Say

• Scilicet et fluvius qui visus maximus ei, Qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit; et ingens Arbor, homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni Maxima quae vidit quisque, haec ingentia fingit.

  

  Lucretius

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the world. I want to honor all those difficult experiences and acknowledge their aftermath. At the same time, I want to really see and love the world around me.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Time
  • World