Benjamin Hooks Quotes
We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.Benjamin Hooks
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
Abe Lemons -
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
Indra Nooyi -
My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
Karl Rove -
I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
Caity Lotz -
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
Barton Gellman
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For me, soccer was a dance.
Rabih Alameddine -
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
Oscar Isaac -
I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
Imelda May -
Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.
Felicity Jones -
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John
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What to leave out is the first thing the artist has to decide; a painter who 'held the mirror up to nature' would spend his life on the leaves of one landscape. The work of art’s fluctuating and idiosyncratic threshold of attention-the great things disregarded, the small things seized and dwelt on-is as much of a signature as anything in it.
Randall Jarrell -
When I was at Yale, I hung a bit with the Warhol gang. I used some of his superstar types in early movies. I can't say I had any conversations with him, but I did pass him at Max's Kansas City. But I was a big fan of his movies.
Lloyd Kaufman -
I'm pretty adventurous - the more wacky, the better! Sometimes I'll want to look chic, but lots of the time, I'll wear really mad colours and patterns, as it's just more fun.
Poppy Delevingne -
I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.
Alice Ripley -
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
Jeffrey Deitch -
I've always essentially been a New Yorker.
Lawrence Block
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I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.
Dita Von Teese -
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
Carl Icahn -
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
Debi Thomas -
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
Antonio Banderas -
When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.
Chrisette Michele Payne -
We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.
Benjamin Hooks