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Vanessa Brown Quotes

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.

Vanessa Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: austrian
Birth: March 24, 1928 - May 21, 1999

Topics

Food Soul Sun Driving America You

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

Myself Child People Me Ideas Want

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

John Cornyn

World Blessings Country Liberty Said

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

Melvyn Bragg

Literature Lake Earth Places Been

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

John Ortberg

Time Experience Purpose Spiritual

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

Maxine Peake

Women Shoes Eating Talking Play Sit

I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy.

Robert Herjavec

Balance Never Dessert Meals Big Guy

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

Roger Ailes

Dumb Him Soft Like He Spot

What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.

Jose Carreras

Soul Step Brain Voice Emotions Call

Unfortunately, in the Hollywood way, respect comes in the form of a trophy a lot of the time.

Dean Winters

Respect Time Hollywood Way Trophy

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

Chris Lilley

Class Always Bottom Well Very

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

Antonia Fraser

Lucky Number

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

William J. Clinton

Work Grateful Together I Am People