"What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music."

-- Janis Joplin

#Essence Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.”

Source : "'Daddy's Little Girls' Actress Gabrielle Union". "News & Notes" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 9, 2007.
“I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.”
“The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers”
“When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.”
“I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance , insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.”
“Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.”
“Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.”

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