Katherine Dunham Quotes
Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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I put everything into my hand luggage! Really, I do!
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I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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Our awareness gap and the fuzziness about how people might understand Ulta today is a ripe opportunity for us as we think about going forward. I imagine this is like almost relaunching the brand of Ulta.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.
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Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
