Chirlane McCray Quotes

Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.

Chirlane McCray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1954

Topics

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If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.

Megyn Kelly

WomanHappyCareerHalfIf I Could

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

John McCarthy

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'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

Amanda Seales

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Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

Tristan MacManus

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I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Tom Verlaine

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In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

Joshua Cohen

AmericaProveWhateverGestureClaim

In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.

Daya

CommitmentMeI CanRelationships

My hair was famous before I was.

Christopher Walken

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It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about our state.

Clementa C. Pinckney

GoodHopeBestStand UpStandWill

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

LifeLoveKindnessGoodBestMan

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

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At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.

Timothy Leary

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