David Dinkins Quotes
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.
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Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
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The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
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It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.
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I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.
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Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
