Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Taj Mahal Quotes

As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today.

Taj Mahal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 17, 1942

Topics

Music Today Time Child Me Ancestors

If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't that important.

Jennifer Hyman

Work Time Looking You Down Way

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

Robert Harris

Good World Story Two Always Tell

Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy.

John Tyler

Success Politics Government World

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.

Mike Birbiglia

College Washington Up Massachusetts

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Jonathan Lethem

People Battle White Class Poor

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Dorothy Allison

I Am Class Strengths Background Am

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

Christopher Darden

Lawyers Will Possible Us About Each

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Chris Rock

Good Knowledge Comedy You Television

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

Family Good Growing Up Face Uncle

I'm actually a ridiculously basic person when it comes to make-up, and I pretty much wear the same things I did when I started my company 22 years ago, apart from a few differently textured foundations.

Bobbi Brown

Person Company Same Years Pretty

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

Nina Fedoroff

Water People Grow Need Planet Going

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

Rex Harrison

Tomorrow Pleasure Thief