Joyce Banda Quotes

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.

Joyce Banda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: April 12, 1950

Topics

FatherDreamsSoulPeopleCareer

I found that pedals were too much to fool around with. You'd be halfway through a solo, and the batteries would go dead and conk out. And if you tread on the lead going to the pedal, something would always go wrong. Or some crazy kid would pull the lead out just at the moment when you're about to do your big number on it.

Angus Young

MomentFoolCrazyYouToo MuchGo

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Ann Beattie

PeopleNameNowEvenCorrect

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

Amitava Kumar

StruggleImaginationYouNewDesire

All oppression creates a state of war.

Simone de Beauvoir

WarOppressionStateCreates

I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a number of factors that led to all of that happening, which, if you mapped it out, you would say, 'God, a lot had to go right for all of those things to line up.'

Tom Kitt

GodChildrenWifeYouThreeMeet

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Roland Barthes

SayingLiteratureWorthTroubleMust

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

Loretta Lynch

PeopleSocietyCountryPersonDebt

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Jasper Johns

PowerSpacePaintingUnderstandMost

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

Jonathan Kozol

LoveSchoolBackGoTeachYears

There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

Derek Walcott

WorkNaturePoetryLandscapePlace

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Constance Baker Motley

RacismClassNextSeeI SeeSexism

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

Piper Perabo

New YorkRestYearNewTwoFilm

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