David Dinkins Quotes
The people really are what make New York City great.
David Dinkins
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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.
Naomie Harris
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
Kapil Sibal
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
Brown Campbell
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
Felipe VI of Spain
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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.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
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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?
Yoko Ono
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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.
Tammy Duckworth
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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.
Omari Hardwick
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
Eddie Marsan
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.
Adam Savage
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When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.
Jessie Matthews
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
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I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.
Dennis Crowley
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The people really are what make New York City great.
David Dinkins
