Cliff Curtis Quotes

People were nicer to me when I was in the arts. I experienced extreme racism in small-town New Zealand. Racism which really went away when I got into the arts.

Cliff Curtis

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger

AloneBeing AloneBeingSenseBegins

It's a beautiful thing when you come to fight week and you know that you haven't cut any corners.

Andre Ward

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I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

Melissa Etheridge

WisdomJourneyExperienceMaturity

A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Maya Angelou

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You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.

Robert Rinder

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I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party.

Angelique Kerber

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I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Amy Winehouse

LoveDayPeopleEvery DayFall

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

ChangeFutureTimeStressShort

Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the seabed), not by hefty ships that travel more slowly than senior citizens drive.

Rose George

TravelDriveBelieveInformationAir

Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.

Monica Raymund

PassionHardBeingPerformingOnce

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

Judy Biggert

EducationTimeSchoolChildResearch

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal.

Lisa Loeb

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