Laurie Graham Quotes

There is something very easy about women's friendships that you don't see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say.

Laurie Graham

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WomenMenEasyYouKnowSay

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

Jim Yong Kim

ChangeChange The WorldI AmPeople

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Maya Lin

BusinessWarPeopleBuildingView

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

Robert Agostinelli

RewardRiskMoreFairFailGet

Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

PeopleStrongGroupForgeCommon

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Mickey Rooney

WorkMarriageMorningDayYouWay

I come from a lineage of ministers.

Lizz Wright

ComeMinistersLineage

That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

Jason Bateman

CharacterFreedomManMeShortPlay

You have to have faith in yourself, keep believing and sticking to the game plan, and hope when the chance does come, one of you will put it away.

Dele Alli

FaithHopeYourselfGameChanceYou

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Christine Pelosi

AdviceTryingSan FranciscoDefense

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Clive Barker

ExperienceAnxietyYouLookFeeling

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

Audre Lorde

GodNew YorkYouNewCirclesUp

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

William Osler

ExperienceValueSeeingMuchWisely

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