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Ruth Negga Quotes

I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.

Ruth Negga

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: ethiopian
Birth: January 7, 1982

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People Think Quiet Shy Spotlight

I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.

Jerry Harrison

Think You Bad Starting Out Just

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

Jennifer Weiner

Mother Best Job Doing She Without

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Great Mathematics Madness Doubt Say

As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some combination of the two, depending on our individual inclination and mood.

Robert Lanza

Nature Children School Surprise Mood

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

Simon Cowell

Teacher Day Me Face Guitar Giving

If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.

Marvin Gaye

Smile Father God Blessing Job Me

I've had tendinitis since college.

Michael Jordan

College Since Had

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

Life Money Man Making Money Moral

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Dick Fosbury

Moment Team Train Athlete Never

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?

Douglas Coupland

World Survive Recognition You Look

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

Debbie Ford

Change Future Acceptance You Accept

I would like to praise all of my coaches, from Pep to the first I had as a kid, because all of them have helped make me who I am.

David Villa

I Am Me First Praise Kid Because