David Dinkins Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
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I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'
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What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.
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The people really are what make New York City great.
