Katherine Dunham Quotes

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Color
  • Filmmaker

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Women

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Love
  • Age
  • Dream

• For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Organization

• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Remember

• An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

  

  Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
  • Experience

• In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Time
  • Overcome
  • Centimeter