Ava DuVernay Quotes

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

Ava DuVernay

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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Jerry Pournelle

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All children of cosmonauts went to one school. We all lived in the same neighborhood, Star City, and all of us, children of cosmonauts, were in the center of attention from the teachers and general inhabitants of the Star City, and so it was difficult in that respect.

Roman Romanenko

ChildrenRespectSchoolCitySame

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

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If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you're in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.

Mickey Drexler

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I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.

Joshua Bell

GreatTogetherHelpPlayWillMean

My parents are pretty cool people.

Dominic Monaghan

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As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

Bobby Sherman

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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Anthony Hopkins

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In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

Alison Gopnik

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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Wole Soyinka

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Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

Moshe Sharett

StrengthPeopleNeedIsraelRole

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Les Brown

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