Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.

Iyanla Vanzant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

Mayim Bialik

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The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

Aly Khan

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I just want to serve Colombia.

Alvaro Uribe

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Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.

Spike Milligan

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When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

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People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

Michael Patrick King

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My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

Luke Benward

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The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one.

Lloyd Cutler

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A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

Jules Shear

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It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.

Dolores O'Riordan

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I wouldn't really, realistically speaking, know the difference between wearing an S.S. uniform and a U.S. Marine uniform. To me it's all a uniform.

Christoph Waltz

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