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Jurnee Smollett-Bell Quotes

My mom is from New Orleans. And all of my maternal relatives were there during Katrina. We couldn't even find my uncle for four months. We literally didn't know where he was. I had been there just four days before the storm hit.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: October 1, 1986

Topics

Storm Mom Uncle Find New Know

I'm so impatient. I can't even stand waiting for a cab, and I'm always early for everything. In training, it means I want to run my personal best every session - but it takes time.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Time Best Training Waiting Stand

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

Jennifer Damiano

Age Style Feel Trying Find Young

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Amanda Lindhout

Mother Home Time Parents Year Eat

It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.

Stephen Gaghan

Work People Chance Care View You

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Steven Pinker

Nature Human Nature Opinions Back

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.

Steve Wynn

Attitude Generation Want Sitting

When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.

Shirin Ebadi

Respect You Person Vote Human See

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Tom Chatfield

Time Presence Something Understood

I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

Mikhail Prokhorov

Politics Control Someone Cannot Else

When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.

Juergen Teller

Child Saying Uncle House Hide Go

I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.

Jazz Jennings

Hope People Discrimination Young

If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.

Bob McNair

Community Time Team Think Long New