Katherine Dunham Quotes
I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
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If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
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The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.
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I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
