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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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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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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I never starved myself.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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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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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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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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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.
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I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
