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.

Ron Reier

The fact is, this building is posted, and they did not belong here. This was trespassing, entering a building that is not very safe. There's quite likely going to be charges.

Selman Waksman

Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.

Talib Kweli

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

Tom Mann

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Teresita Sy-Coson

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

Eric Burdon

There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.

Eric Hill

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

Erik Hassle

I'm a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I've been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game.

Karen Maitland

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

Danny Nee

We have to get help for McAllister. We need more offense from someone else on the floor. It can't be McAllister carrying us on his shoulders. We need all the other players to get more consistent.

Yasser Arafat

We have no other alternative. And in spite of all the difficulties we are facing, we have one alternative: to carry on with the peace process. This is our strategic target.

Italian Proverb

When your neighbor's house is on fire, carry water to your own

Mark Teixeira

When he gets hot, he can carry a team for a long time.

Susan Glisson

We want participation from each of the 11 states in the original Confederacy. We invite all those committed to carrying the South out of the dark past of racial violence and conflict, away from fear and segregation and impoverishing lifestyles to share this journey with us.

Robert Gleitz

The extension of the federal wind-energy production tax credit in 2005 helped trigger the record-breaking year and provided momentum that will carry over through 2007.

Sharon Stone

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

Tracy Morgan

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

Maha Muna

Ultimately we know it's the government that is responsible for ensuring protection in IDP situations. Our challenge now is to figure out how to support those mechanisms to carry out their mandates.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Zhang Ning

We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Annette Brown

We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

Tara VanDerveer

We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well.

Justin Kirk

When I'm watching television or a movie, I like to see stories that are extraordinary. I don't need it be something that is, 'Well this makes more sense to me because I can see this happening to me, or this happened to me.'

Richard Shelby

The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whole situation.

Thomas Ian Griffith

I'm looked upon as a theater actor who happened to know martial arts before I got into the movies.

Ellen Muth

Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

William Shakespeare

O shame, where is thy blush?

Diane Watson

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed.

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Wayne Mason

It is a shame there was such a setback there.

Rob Gray

It is a shame that the work has been done in the way it has.

Eric Fellner

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

Ryan Klesko

This was a big win for us, ... We didn't need to get swept by these guys.

Karl Marx

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.