David Dinkins Quotes

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

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• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Difficult

• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Years

• My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Sister

• I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Street
  • Route
  • Weirdo

• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Heaven

• Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Risk
  • Laugh
  • Looking

• It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • May
  • Wish

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Theatre

• Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Situation

• I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Know
  • Healthy
  • Animals

• I don't read much of anything online.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Read
  • Anything
  • Online

• I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Good
  • Business
  • Man

• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Up
  • Game
  • Stand

• There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Children
  • Night
  • Page

• Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Twitter
  • Awkward

• Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Lies
  • Magic

• But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

  

  David Dinkins