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 like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
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Nobody is born evil.
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Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.
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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.
