Antavia Artis Quotes & Sayings

On August 1, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel granted the CIA's request to begin water-boarding Abu Zubaydah. The technique, tantamount to torture, was designed to elicit confessions through the threat of imminent death by drowning. That same day John Yoo, now a deputy to Attorney General Ashcroft, advised the White House that the laws against torture did not apply to American interrogators. The president, the vice president, the secretary of defense, and the director of Central Intelligence approved. The — Tim Weiner

The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time. — Sam Amidon

Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay. — Kyle Abraham

Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination. — Alexandra Adornetto

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it. — Susanne Bier

Fitting in is one of those horrible diseases that turn reasonable minds into sheep-gelatin hive minds. — Alida Nugent

Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain ... ! — Ke$ha

I want to turn my life into sad adventure and myths. — J. Limbu

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing. — Letitia Baldrige

The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself. — Byron Katie

Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic. — Mary Balogh

I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived. — Ben Hogan

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. — William Wyler

You have times when you are extremely happy, times of testing, and times of trial, but the Lord guides you through all of those growth experiences together. — Richard G. Scott