Quotes About Inner City Youth

#1. You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Rose McGowan

#2. You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

Chris Cooper

#3. Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.

Dia Reeves

#4. I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.

Emily Mortimer

#5. Don't ask her to be a rock
for you to lean upon
instead, build her wings
and point her to the sky
and she will teach you both to fly.

Atticus Poetry

#6. Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

Questlove

#7. Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room
one we are afraid to enter

Matthew J. Pallamary

#8. It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

Caspar Weinberger

#9. Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

Samuel Barnett

#10. I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.

CeeLo Green

#11. I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

Brett Ratner

#13. While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans.

Kathleen Sebelius

#14. Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us - Devi Shakti

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#15. But fear not: I do underdog.

Maria Semple

#16. If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

Richard Branson

#17. I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Pleasure is pleasure, enjoy!

Annie Wood

#18. Anand finished up his cola cube transaction. I stepped up and slammed three pound coins on the counter like an oppressed inner-city youth born with the skills of rhythm and rhyme.

Nikesh Shukla