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Roots Quotes

It's easiest for me to be blonde because I'm naturally blonde; my roots are light enough that all I have to do is just highlight my hair every few months.

Jennifer Morrison

Light Me Roots Hair Blonde Enough

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Beginning I Am Roots Black Think

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Future Vision Art Culture Roots

I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and tradition-wise.

Roots Think American Find Way Most

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Roots Picture Back House Paint Goes

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Roots Book Weird Independent Wanted

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

John Millington Synge

Poetry Roots Strong Clay Worms Most

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

Mother History Past I Am Roots She

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let's remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.

Woman School Roots Problems Deep

Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.

Matthew Desmond

Community School Roots Plant You

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Roots Road Doing Working Movie

If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.

Richard Preston

Roots You Biology Know Will Touch

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

I Am New York Child Roots I Can New

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

Good People Roots Understanding Bad

I always think to myself that if I was able to transition from lucha libre style to American style, then I can always go back. You never lose your roots.

Style Myself Roots Think American

When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.

John Ralston Saul

Live Together Roots Stupid Treat

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

Life Roots Pride Honor Mexican

What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.

Education Tree Environmental Roots

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Life Family Spiritual Roots World

My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

Roots More Side Beatles Whole He

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Life Attitude Roots Chance Think Us

What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies and stuff, I'm just finding the next NBA player.

Good Roots Doing Finding Place Want

I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

Roots Will Hidden Never Influences

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

Fight Mind Me Roots You Back

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