Uzo Aduba Quotes

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Uzo Aduba

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'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.

John Mellencamp

EffortCoolSongThoughtAmerican

The common goals of Puerto Rico and the United States have always been for the benefit of both.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

GoalsPuerto RicoAlwaysCommonBeen

I do Pilates and yoga and try to eat healthy.

Amy Smart

HealthyTryEatPilatesYoga

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Siobhan Davies

CreativityPeopleEnergyBackNow

I like the music from Drake. I like the music from PARTY. I like music from The Weeknd, Justin Bieber.

Tory Lanez

MusicPartyLikeJustin BieberDrake

I don't think it's good to run on anger, but it's really great when that's the first couple of gallons in your tank - when you've had enough, and you're just pissed off enough to go for it. In a lot of ways, that sort of environment can be a catapult for a great situation.

Josh Homme

GoodGreatAngerThinkEnoughYou

I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

Jon Ossoff

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It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

Jonathan Demme

ExperienceRichViewYouHardPoint

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

Clay Shirky

LifeBeeSocietyToolsCreateHuman

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Comte de Lautreamont

GoodLiteratureCreateNewDesire

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

Clive Thompson

PeopleThinkConnectionsInternet

I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in June through August of '73 which embargoed any further U.S. help to South Vietnam.

Alistair Horne

BlameHelpCongressPersonalHatred

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