Katherine Dunham Quotes
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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Dream and you shall become.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian, and it was one of the best choices I’ve ever made.
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Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.
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Sex is like a beautiful meeting of genitalia. It's the dance of love between a penis and vagina.
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I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.
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My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
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I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
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You must relate athletic experiences to life.
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I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
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I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!
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I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
