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Nafessa Williams Quotes

I switch up between going to the gym or exercising outside to run around a track and the stairs of a stadium.

Nafessa Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: December 4, 1989

Topics

Gym Stairs Run Outside Up Going

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Andrew Carnegie

Wise Stop Serious Difficult Task

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Detroit Escape Share Costs Model

If you arrive at a concert ready to play your piece, that's not nearly good enough. You must have your music ready to the point where you can play it on a short rehearsal, after a long plane flight, on a strange piano, having had an unpleasant lunch, in an unfriendly atmosphere. You have to be so over-prepared that you can cope with anything.

Good Music Lunch Short Enough You

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

Life Inspirational Mother Home City

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

Alone Time Day People Small Talk

I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise.

Surprise Alien Know True Director

During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected officials. Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.

Power Focus Job Government Window

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Lie Someone Too Much Hard Who Knows

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Family History Responsibility Man

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to 'get' any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

Music Culture Think Enough Matter

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Government Oil Two Nation Taxes

The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.

Alistair Brownlee

Great Thoughts You Bubble Own Get

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