Lanear Allen Quotes & Sayings

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. — Nelson Mandela

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease. — Henry Ford

When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that. — Adam Sandler

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out. — Clare Boothe Luce

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp ... Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal.
You cannot go to another country and make a plan for it. The cultural context is so different from what you know that you will not understand much of what you see. I would never come to the US and claim to understand what's going on, even in the African American culture. People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked.
That includes women. Most especially women ...
To outsiders like the UN, these soldiers were a problem to be managed. But they were our children. — Leymah Gbowee

There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head. — Sara Genn

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't. — Ann Herendeen

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained. — Tim Heidecker

I don't believe I can let this subject pass by leaving my own conflicted emotions unconfessed. When Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1978, I dismissed it as a minor achievement for a scientist, scarcely worth listing. When I won the same prize the following year, it wondrously became a major literary award of which scientists should take special note. — Edward O. Wilson

I don't diet and exercise. I eat and train. — J.R. Rim

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself. — Adrien Brody

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I looked at her- she looked at me.
My ending, staring right at me from the very beginning. — Ella Frank

I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. — Kirsten Dunst