Davalos Quotes

#1. Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, and it seemed she would never be, but it was clearly something she aspired to, since all the people she respected were.

Elizabeth McCracken

#2. Hanging around people you're smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.

Glen Chambers

#4. There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.

Lauryn Hill

#5. I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

Alexa Davalos

#6. The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

Robert Anton Wilson

#7. Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.

Terrell Owens

#8. Only those that wandered in the darkness truly revel in the light

Shekhar Kapur

#9. I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Lou Holtz

#10. Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Lady Gaga

#12. You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Irv Robbins

#13. I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#14. The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Scott Fujita

#15. People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together ... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Monica Furlong