Matatizo Quotes & Sayings

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar. — Tempestt Bledsoe

Glorious failures are often much more wonderful than easy victories. — Jonathan Friesen

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied. — Charlie Chaplin

In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control. — Fredrik Logevall

We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country. — Donald Rumsfeld

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from ... " I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview? — Oprah Winfrey

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape. — Niger Innis

If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him. — Thomas Merton

He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him. — Kingsley Amis

Don't be a slave to your limiting beliefs. It's your mind, so take control of it today. Stop following the beliefs that don't help you. Create empowering beliefs that will serve you better. — Maddy Malhotra

If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. — Neil Gaiman

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths - as many paths as there are artists. — Rufino Tamayo

Higher energy prices act like a tax. — John W. Snow

Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it ... — Gautama Buddha