George Newbern Quotes

I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.

George Newbern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 30, 1964

Topics

LifeGodThinkChurchMy LifeGo

I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn't comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state.

Amandla Stenberg

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In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.

Sue Monk Kidd

ReligionSlaveryChurchEarlyPlace

In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.

Masi Oka

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I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.

Michele Bachmann

AmericaLadyWantWillNextIron

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

Michael K. Powell

GovernmentMeSomeoneMotivesFound

It takes collaboration across a community to develop better skills for better lives.

Jose Angel Gurria

CommunityCollaborationBetterSkills

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

Joseph Kanon

CompetitionBetterYouWorstVice

I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.

Jon Ronson

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I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.

Colman Domingo

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Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

Bruce Dickinson

LifeLoveLife Is Too ShortShort

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

Pramila Jayapal

BelieveYearWashingtonFirstAnswer

Whatever insults my State insults me.

Preston Brooks

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