David Dinkins Quotes
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'
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I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa.
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...she came as near as ever she came to kneeling and thanking God for all good and all ill that He had ever sent upon her. She thought: next time I will wait and learn His purpose before I rail against His harshness. God was teacing her a mighty means of battle, she thought - a force stronger than force; He had whispered a secret in her ear - patience.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.
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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
