John Paul DeJoria Quotes

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

John Paul DeJoria

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I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

Melinda Clarke

WomenReflectionMeThinkPowerful

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Robert Casey

GoodPowerManPoliticalSenseWho

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

Desiigner

ChillUsArtistsRappersNoneDudes

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Brandon Boyd

LifeArtPerfectKnowMoreWrite

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

Bobby Bowden

CoachingYouMissCamaraderieThose

The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.

Brian Molko

FunDressYouMoreUp

There's always a way to pull back and discredit ourselves, but once you just shut that out and start doing it, you realize things about yourself that you never thought were possible.

Brian Ortega

YourselfStartThoughtDoingYou

The first role that I played as a musical - I was 14 years old, and I played Birdie in 'Bye Bye Birdie.' That was an awakening of, 'Wow, I'm good at that. People are responding.' And I hardly knew what I was doing back then, but there was something that people were seeing.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

GoodPeopleDoingSeeingBackFirst

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

Alice McDermott

MeYouPerfectDownSayPoem

In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with her 'Fear of Flying.'

Alistair Horne

FearFlyingFallModestySurviving

If I want something, I go after it.

Suzanne Crough

GoWantSomethingAfter

I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it.

Syd

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