David Dinkins Quotes
We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.David Dinkins
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
Dana Delany -
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan -
If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
Rachel Dratch -
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
Walt Mossberg -
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
J. William Fulbright -
The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose -
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
F. Sionil Jose -
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey -
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
Hannah Storm -
A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
Aaron Ciechanover -
There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
Samira Wiley -
Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
Babasaheb -
I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
R. Kelly -
Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
Laura Marano -
I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
Bat for Lashes
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Oscar Levant -
All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.
Blaise Pascal -
I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.
Quincy Jones -
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Bahá'u'lláh -
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
William Randolph Hearst -
We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.
David Dinkins