Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

Iyanla Vanzant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1953

Topics

WorkTimeThoughtHellFamousFame

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

Andrew McCarthy

StoryRightEverybodyThinks

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

Matt Lanter

LoveLearningHistorySchoolLoved

I've now got a 35,000-word document of quotes from people who hate me, a lot from the 'Guardian' comment threads. Mostly, I've managed to get myself into the mindset where the criticism is quite affirming.

Stewart Lee

MyselfHatePeopleMeMindsetNow

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.

Tom Perez

SchoolMindMeLawExerciseClass

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

Rudolf Steiner

ScienceChildrenUnderstandingTrue

My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to urge us further down the line towards a federal superstate when the U.S. has not even signed up to the U.N. Convention on Human Rights.

Boris Johnson

SimpleAmericaDownHumanLineUp

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

Anthony Hopkins

SchoolDoingBadStudentKnowWhy

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

Ashley Madekwe

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I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

William Whipple

HopeTimeFeelWillSovereignty

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

FateHimWhoResistLeadsFollows

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

Philip Pullman

LifeLovePeopleWorldRestMy Life

Since I began writing my new 'Bad Company' story, anyone who's connected with '2000 AD' has probably heard the sad news of the death of Brett Ewins, penciller and vital component of the original 'Bad Company' team.

Peter Milligan

SadDeathTeamWritingStoryBad

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