Marilyn Nelson Quotes

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

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• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Eat
  • Careful
  • Nutrition

• I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Girl
  • Person
  • Wooing

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Live
  • Law

• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Night
  • Care

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Things
  • Actor
  • Chef

• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Childhood

• I believe in my music.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Star

• I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • High
  • Acting

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Always
  • Minds
  • Comedians

• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Play
  • Like
  • King

• When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Boat
  • Surfing
  • Sailing

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Great
  • Fall
  • Accomplishment

• But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Problem

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Unhappy

• With 'Cold Skin,' I believe we can create a lasting psycho-physiological horror film. It is one of the most atmospheric, terrifying, cinematic, and original stories of the human spirit.

  

  David Slade
  • Believe
  • Cold

• Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

  

  Marilyn Nelson
  • Believe