Verdean Quotes

#1. My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

Aeriel Miranda

#2. I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#3. I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

Rachel Weisz

#4. Oh, lady be good To me.

Ira Gershwin

#5. Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.

Miguel Ruiz

#6. Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Nita Ambani

#7. I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.

Dev Hynes

#8. The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

Mara Liasson

#9. Witchcraft to the ignorant, ... Simple science to the learned.

Leigh Brackett

#10. Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.

George F. Will