My father figures were all gang members.
Richard Cabral
Recitation: by Male by Female
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.
Jessye Norman
LovePeopleMeBookLanguageSee
Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.
John Gurdon
WorkStartingWithinCellsFeeding
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
John Lydon
LifeArtHumanityImitationSome
I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'
Anna Akana
GirlMeEmotionalUpVideosGet
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch
FamilyFatherMotherSonCuriosity
I care more about a 15-year-old queer kid in Iowa who wants to know that there's anything out there that resembles their experience and life than the hip queer person in Brooklyn.
Liv Bruce
LifeExperienceCareBrooklynPerson
If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.
Liu Xiaobo
ChangePoliticsProgressSociety
Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.
Deepak Chopra
PeopleActionYouCreatePlansWay
People are not as nice as they used to be. There used to be a time when we conversed. You don't get a lot of real responses now. They used to be more polite and well-mannered people, generally. It's minimal now.
Aretha Franklin
TimePeopleYouNiceNowMore
I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.
Winona Ryder
MomYouWhereGetJustSent
If you empower people in their communities and get them jobs, no one like Dudus Coke can win their hearts and minds and hold them hostage.
Portia Simpson-Miller
PeopleWinYouMindsEmpowerHold
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.
Shawn Amos
GreatFreeAmericanPoliticalSpeech
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