Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Eddie Murphy

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

Hafeez Khawaja

WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Chanel Iman

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Atifete Jahjaga

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

Michael Specter

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

George Clooney

We are a little bit out-of-touch in Hollywood. I think that?s probably a good thing. We are the ones who talked about AIDS when it was only being whispered ... We talked about civil rights ... I?m proud to be part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community.

Richard Boucher

We strongly condemn the rebel group ... for endangering the civilian population and ... making it difficult, if not impossible, for aid workers.

S. Walker

We're interested in investigating the use of this technology as a navigation aid for military divers in murky waters where visibility is extremely limited.

Jim Henkel

We have mutual aid right now with the Richland County health department, so we could call on the county as needed for inspections.

Charlize Theron

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

Akira Chiba

Until we have a clearer picture ... there won't be a situation where new aid would be given.

Max Heindel

If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Emily Coombe

We are looking to be more controlled. We hope to play smart, controlled games. We hope to cut down on our errors. Last year we averaged just over four a game. We want to cut that in half to two or less per game.

Joe Battista

We are a very average team when we try to go by ourselves -- when we move the puck; we're awesome. I don't know what happened, if they see the big crowd and decide they're going to go Hollywood on us.

Sue Bailey

There are customers that will love it. My biggest concern is: Can we teach the average cook how to use it?

Michael Ching

Specifically, the company suffers from a bloated inventory of older model phones, which is slowing the transition to newer, higher-margin products.

Steven Wood

These data indicate that the manufacturing sectors of the economy are still reeling from slowing demand and bloated inventories. Further declines in output are likely.

Chip Esten

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

Fred Lane

I think the message here is, pick your targets wisely, and do not pick on managements or boards unless they are demonstrably inept and the management structures are demonstrably bloated and ineffective. I don't think that's a conclusion you draw from the Time Warner experience.

R. Inge

Gold is a safe haven and there's expectation that with the bloated trade deficit in the U.S., the U.S. dollar is vulnerable.

Kathy Miller

His stomach was bloated because he was so full of parasites.

Jason Napodano

I think Bristol-Myers is an excellent takeover candidate. It has a bloated cost structure and some really good mid- to late-stage products.

Lara Stone

Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.

Scott Hennig

This would have been the perfect opportunity for Premier Klein to re-commit to a smaller, more streamlined cabinet without having to fire any ministers. But instead he opted to increase an already bloated cabinet.

Jackie Speier

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Benjamin Disraeli

The spirit that does not soar is destined to grovel

Lori Wilde

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Tom Rath

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

Sergei Kupriyanov

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

Alicia Silverstone

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother.

African Proverb

The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

David Thurtell

It's not hard to imagine, you know, that there could be safe-haven flows for the rest of the week.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible

David Ging

There's a sense that the G7 meeting sort of supports intervention in the market so you could see some good foreign flows into Treasuries.

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Emma Watson

The only way I could tell the story was to intensify it, and shed anything that didn't serve that, ... It all flows very well, so you kind of forget what is actually missing.

Reggie Jackson

This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

George Harrison

Life flows on within you and without you.

George Clooney

People wax and wane, it ebbs and flows on what my standing is. Next year, I will be the butt of all the jokes. So it's cyclical.

John Mackey

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

Matthias Platzeck

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

Michel Onfray

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We are protesting a new form of dictatorship and authoritarianism.

Alex Ferguson

We're in great form at the moment and looking forward to every match.

Method Man

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

Nicolas Roeg

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Kurt Vonnegut

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

C. S. Lewis

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Eben Alexander

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Arthur Conan Doyle

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Edward Young

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Eduardo Chillida

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Richard Browne

As we got into making the first three, it seemed obvious that we should do more,

Mary Neubauer

They obviously scored the highest. There was no favoritism shown to any of these companies.

Mike Sullivan

They don't think it's real serious but obviously enough to keep him out of our lineup.

Rod Wright

For me, it's always been about producing when you get there. Obviously you want to go high. But once you get there, you still have to do the same thing, and that's produce.

Gary Bauer

It's obvious I'm going to have to win some of these,

Mike Brooks

Its obvious they haven't been training very much.

Jeaniene Frost

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Rabih Alameddine

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

Rich Brooks

There have been rampant rumors that I will resign,

Nell Newman

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Steve Gillis

They say they're supporting the troops, but they're not.

Robert Maillet

You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Robin Butler

I'm still undecided about who I'm supporting for governor, but I'm a person who supports the anti-Nussle campaign.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Robert Lowe

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

Marcel Dionne

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.