Misty Copeland Quotes

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.

Misty Copeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1982

Topics

I AmPeopleMeBlackLookPerson

The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.

Jim Brown

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I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Robert Griffin III

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To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.

Jeff Van Gundy

GoodGood TeacherPassionHistory

We have to deal with the nation's debt.

Jeff Duncan

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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

Milla Jovovich

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I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

Louis C. K.

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I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.

Jon Favreau

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Part of what makes America great is that we stand by the countries that share our values around the world. That's why throughout its history, the State of Israel has had no greater friend than the United States of America.

Denis McDonough

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I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.

Chuck Klein

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Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

Bruno Dumont

ChangeMemoriesGreatMindMeShe

I'm a stylist, so I've been conditioned to setting up my own clothes like a fitting.

Brad Goreski

ClothesMy OwnUpOwnBeenStylist

There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?

Anne Wojcicki

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