All Quotes

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
‐‐ LL Cool J

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.
‐‐ Rodney King

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
‐‐ Majora Carter

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
‐‐ N. K. Jemisin

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
‐‐ Angela Davis

As a black woman trying different products and figuring out what works best for me, the one thing that I realized is that hair brands lump us together as having 'black hair,' but all black hair is not alike.
‐‐ Keshia Knight Pulliam

As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then when you're with your home girls, you're saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you're speaking the way that you're comfortable with.
‐‐ Katori Hall

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
‐‐ Bharati Mukherjee

As a border prosecutor, I've put criminals behind bars who worked for some of the most violent cartels in the world.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.
‐‐ Duane Chapman

As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.
‐‐ Nonito Donaire

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
‐‐ Neil Armstrong

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
‐‐ Barry White

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
‐‐ Terence Stamp

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.
‐‐ Nikolaas Tinbergen

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.
‐‐ Ernst Toller

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.
‐‐ Cecil B. DeMille

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
‐‐ Daniel Alarcon

As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
‐‐ Carlo Rubbia

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
‐‐ Brian Cox

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
‐‐ John Gokongwei

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
‐‐ J. August Richards

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!
‐‐ John Sununu

As a boy, without experience, never having spoken in public in my life, for any length of time, never ten minutes at once, I was called to preside over a stake of Zion.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
‐‐ Ofra Strauss

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.
‐‐ John Sculley

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
‐‐ John Gurdon

As a British fashion designer, it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

As a British rider, it's a privilege to be able to compete on home roads. The British public have really taken to cycling, and you can see that when the race goes through different towns: the community really gets behind it.
‐‐ Lizzie Armitstead

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
‐‐ Taryn Manning

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
‐‐ Loni Anderson

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.
‐‐ John Scarlett

As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.
‐‐ Tamara Mellon

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.
‐‐ Austin Ligon

As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
‐‐ R. Kelly

As a businessman, if you ask me what I'm proud of, I'm proud of the fact that I made $250 billion under my watch as CEO.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer