Katherine Dunham Quotes

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Katherine Dunham

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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.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Christian
  • Principles
  • Tell

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Madison McKinley
  • World
  • Friends
  • Leader

• I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Problem
  • Professional

• The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Pride
  • Anxiety
  • Israel

• Dream and you shall become.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Dream
  • You
  • Become

• 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.'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Memories

• I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Help

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Charity

• 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.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Family
  • House

• They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Up

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Choices

• Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

  

  Edward Young
  • Today
  • Wise

• Sex is like a beautiful meeting of genitalia. It's the dance of love between a penis and vagina.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Beautiful
  • Dance
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Why
  • Powerful

• 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.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Happy

• I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Childhood

• If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Grace
  • Essence
  • Obligated

• I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Artist
  • Confidence
  • Pen

• I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

  

  Emily Browning
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Now the twenty large department stores alone of New York City spend, so it is estimated, $4,000,000 a year for advertising, while one Chicago house is said to appropriate $500,000 a year for publicity...

  

  Hamilton Holt
  • Advertising
  • Publicity
  • Stores

• I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

  

  Katherine Dunham