David Dinkins Quotes
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
Imran Amed -
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
Olivia Wilde -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Walid Jumblatt -
The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
Wendell Pierce -
I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
Rachel Nichols
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
Tate Donovan -
Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
Ed Sullivan -
I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
Eden Hazard -
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Samuel Butler -
Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
Kacey Musgraves -
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
Octavio Paz -
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
B. F. Skinner -
After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee -
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
Manny Farber -
Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
Mahesh Babu
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I'm extremely excited about working with Troika on 'The Hive.' This script has two elements I always look for in a thriller - strong, believable female characters and a smart, very dark and very creepy story that will definitely resonate with large audiences.
Brad Anderson -
My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.
Taylor Swift -
I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.
Anna Netrebko -
I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.
Lupita Nyong'o -
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.
Lynda Resnick -
And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
David Dinkins