Ory Okolloh Quotes

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

Ory Okolloh

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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Jean Henri Fabre

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As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

Amity Gaige

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When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Rob Brydon

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Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

Mickey Rourke

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To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

Jostein Gaarder

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I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory.

Sean Booth

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The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.

Marie Helvin

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An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Mortimer Adler

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The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

Marlene Dumas

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Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Guy Verhofstadt

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I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

Gia Coppola

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A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Emily Greene Balch

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