Havens Quotes - Page 7

There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Henry Louis Gates

Nice, America, People

"Skip Gates Speaks". Interview with Dayo Olopade, www.theroot.com. July 21, 2009.

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Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

Mitch Albom

Stranger

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Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.

Sophia Amoruso

Dream, Fun, Opportunity

Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.14, Penguin

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If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, “Hey, can I have that?

Sophia Amoruso

Simple, Mind, Frustrated

Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#Girlboss”, p.110, Penguin UK

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I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

Fantasia Barrino

Dream, Years, Singing

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Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

Peter Hammill

Song, Couple, Europe

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You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.

Trevor Brooking

Struggle, Feet, Left

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If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

Shirley Hufstedler

Hard, Ifs

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Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet. Ultimately you become commercially successful.

Clayton Christensen

Successful, Innovation, Trying

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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Ben Hecht

Yellowstone, Offering, Chicago

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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Octavia Butler

Thinking, Way, Facts

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We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

James Dyson

Silly, Naughty, People

"Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Bobby Knight

Years, Guy, Half

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Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

Mike Shinoda

Done

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Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

Chelsea Handler

Brother, Father, Suvs

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The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Jimmy Doolittle

War, Winning, Air

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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Wayne Thiebaud

Art, Ideas, Painter

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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

Kate Morton

Doors, Mets, Wanted

Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

Norman Rockwell

Artist, Thinking, Long

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I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

Stephanie Mills

Trying, Never Quit, Quitting

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Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.

Donald Trump

Success, People, Littles

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What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

Christopher Isherwood

Attitude, Book, Taken

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I haven't placed any limits on myself

Randy Couture

Motivational, Art, Limits

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I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

Tony Blair

Ideas, America, Google

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Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.

Paulo Coelho

Inspirational, Life, Magic Moments

Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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