Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Iyanla Vanzant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.

Jim Rash

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One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

Jim Ryun

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I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Matt Reeves

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I blame the Russians for a lot, but pinning the creation of ISIS on them is a murky, tenuous, triple-carom bank shot at best.

Michael Hayden

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Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

Michael Ignatieff

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

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Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Stephen Hawking

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I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.

Sterling K. Brown

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I'm a sneaker head. You'll find more sneakers than heels in my closet.

Rutina Wesley

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I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.

Matisyahu

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I grew up making music in my mum's basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she'd say, 'That's not work. Go get a real job!' It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion!

Mike Posner

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If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.

Marvin Gaye

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