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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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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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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Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
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Prologues like compliments are loss of time;’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
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When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.
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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.
