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Avery Brooks Quotes

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Avery Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 2, 1948

Topics

Life Smile Wisdom Knowledge Children

You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.

Jill Soloway

Vision People World Speak You Way

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

Joel Salatin

Food Diabetes Obesity System Costs

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

Robert Kiyosaki

Decision Comfortable Knew His Seemed

I definitely wear a lot of Tom Ford jackets on stage.

Matthew Ramsey

Stage Wear Jackets Ford Lot Tom

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Michael East

Training Gift Born Nurture Something

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

Steven Pinker

People Media Know Why Will Events

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Steve Martin

Dance Me Detail Act Working Sing

It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.

Simon Le Bon

Money Me Fake Madonna Worried Bit

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Best I Am More Teaching Am

Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.

Louie Gohmert

Vote Republican Single Without Out

I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.

Cillian Murphy

Hope Think Enjoy Way Would Some

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Brene Brown

Children Parenting Uncertainty Shame