Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinaw Mengestu

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Durado Brooks

The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Toyin Odutola

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Todrick Hall

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Erik King

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

Erik Hersman

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kandyse McClure

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

John Feudo

We want to put the issue to rest, and give neighbors a sense of closure as well, have a final, clear, black and white call on how the park will be used.

Louis Farrakhan

We have seen an unprecedented number of black leaders of organizations come together to speak to Americans with one voice ... this has never happened in our history.

Louis Farrakhan

We have seen an unprecedented number of black leaders come together to speak with one voice, ... This tells us a new day is dawning.

John Boyd

We want full restitution ... so black farmers can move on with their lives.

Alan Ruskin

The problem with inflation targeting is that it carries with it a risk of less flexibility at times, and that could be problematical. But it also makes policy less of a black box, so policy is likely to be more transparent.

John Holland

The real heroes were those pilots. At night, it was like going into a black hole. They had to come down between those buildings using only the lights of the aircraft.

Noelle Reed

There is a lot of black and white.

Shelly Spivack

There is debt and there is a black hole.

John Brady

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jeff Bowden

We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

Rich Bowen

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

John Asher

We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source.

Ed McKelvey

Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.

Michael Vaughan

We have played to win throughout the series and will certainly be doing that again,

Matt Murphy

The expectations certainly were on her this year. Everybody knew that she'd be the player to stop on our team. But she went out every night and produced. I knew I could always count on 20 points and at least 10 or 12 rebounds a game from her.

Horst Koehler

The fact that other people are worse off than us is certainly cold comfort for those in Germany who have to count every cent.

Ray Allen

We have to focus on the next (few) games before the deadline. Our production is ultimately going to decide what decision we need to or don't need to make.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Darren Pang

The reality is that Wayne doesn't like to start something and not finish. My guess is that he's the kind of guy who will think about things long and hard, and then he'll decide to return.

Charles Stross

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

Ann Powell

When I decided to sell it, it was just to get the money to do all the things that I've done,

Rusty Wallace

When I decided to retire, I decided I couldn't stand it if I went out a loser,

Kelly Preston

When I decided to resume acting, I had become Mrs. Travolta in many people's eyes so I had to prove myself all over again.

Estella Warren

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets and green fields should flower dignity, hope, equality and happiness.

Noshir Kaka

The reality is that this shortfall can be fairly easily met by industry.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy. All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Jason Schultz

The reality is that this isn't going to stop any kind of so-called piracy, ... All this technology does is inhibit you from making the same kind of personal, fair-use music you've always made. The real pirates are going to easily circumvent this technology. The bootleggers won't even blink.

Chris Rupkey

There is considerable momentum here that will not be easily slowed. This economy is strong, and it is likely to surprise on the upside.

Daniel Goleman

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

Karen Joy Fowler

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

Lupita Nyong'o

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

Lester B. Pearson

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Fran Townsend

There are a lot of dedicated, fine people at FEMA. They're very focused on providing a better response to the nation this year. And we need to be focused on that.

Tove Lo

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

Bryan Robinson

What we did, that's all fine and dandy. We can walk around here with our (division championship) hats and shirts. I don't want to take away from what we did. That's a special thing. But nobody remembers any of that if you lose that first (playoff) game when you're at home. That would be a tough pill to swallow.

French Proverbs

Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day.

Ramiro Mendoza

Venezuela helped me a lot. I'm fine now. All of my pitches are sinking and I've got my change, my curveball, everything. I just have to show I can pitch.

Marc Chandler

Ultimately, it is not the size of intervention that matters, but the timing of the move to finesse the market.

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

Chris Bosh

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

Carlos Mencia

If your gonna drop out of school - tough grades are not your goal - then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

Carl Crawford

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

C. S. Lewis

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

Agnes Varda

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

Agnes Varda

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

Aaron Tveit

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

Aaron Tveit

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Aasif Mandvi

There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.

Aasif Mandvi

Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Brian Weiss

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Brian Cox

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy