Clemantine Wamariya Quotes

As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.

Clemantine Wamariya

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LifeStrengthChildSisterControl

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Joe Perry

CandleMediaTryingAccomplishSaid

You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.

Jeremy London

YouLivingActFortunateGetLike

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Robert Owen

LawSocietyRationalCannotFound

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Jeffery Deaver

ViolenceCrimeWriteCourseStories

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' every night?' I said, 'Oh my God if I have to sing these songs, if I have to sing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' one more night, I'm going to fall out.' Of course, I was young and I didn't understand.

Merry Clayton

GodMindNightRememberYouFall

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.

Steve Coogan

ComedySomeoneTragedySometimesBig

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

Robert Foster Bennett

PeaceAmericaQuestionActiveExit

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

Robert Winston

ChildrenParentsBackTalkEven

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

Mildred Dresselhaus

WorkLeadershipScienceUpGiveHad

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

Diana Rigg

WorldPowerfulTelevisionNowShould

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

Dick Cavett

MeLongMadThingsMakeList

Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

Bob Newhart

WifeBlindCareerChoiceNeverUp

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