Mo'ne Davis Quotes

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Relationships change us and make us grow.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone.

To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.

No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.

She did it the hard way.

Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

I still got my Ferrari.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

When in doubt, pig out!

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

I've lost my faith in science.

I've always liked men better than women.

Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.