David Dinkins Quotes
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I think rage is so ugly.
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What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
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I give a lot of credit to Darrell Bevell and to Tom Cable for their work and their development of the players that they had that was available to them. They did an extraordinary job, and I do think, as Bevell was our offensive coordinator, we broke every record that the Seahawks had offensively. So there's a lot to be said for that.
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I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.
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Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
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In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
