Taiye Selasi Quotes

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

Taiye Selasi

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AmbitionWriteFourEightPublishing

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

Jenny McCarthy

ComedyMoviesHimStageUpBefore

I'd rather go down with an almighty bang than play it safe.

Maxine Peake

DownPlayGoSafeBangRather

Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.

John Lithgow

LifeMistakesOvercomingProblemHim

Literature births activists.

Angie Thomas

LiteratureActivists

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Sun Tzu

BattleTempleWhoGeneralManyWins

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

Stuart Appleby

EvilWorldConquerTryingYouRun

My father's family is German and Czech.

Sissy Spacek

FamilyFatherGermanCzech

The National Action Party, in many ways, emulated the PRI in the way in which it conducted itself in government, supporting corporatist leaders, supporting corrupt oil worker union leaders.

Denise Dresser

GovernmentActionPartyWayOil

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

Debbie Reynolds

TravelJoyHardEntertaining

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

Christina Grimmie

HeartPeopleSpeakOutSingLike

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

Christina Romer

MoneyThinkStrategyDownRight

I'm not the type of artist that's like, 'Let's go out and party and dance your life away!' I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.

Claudia Lee

LifeDanceCoolThinkMeaningParty

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