Marlene Dietrich Quotes

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Respect
  • Judge
  • Discrimination

• I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Not Good Enough

• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Party
  • Investment

• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

  

  Halima Aden
  • History
  • Think
  • Oppression

• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Understand
  • Did
  • Rehab

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Guilt
  • Whatever
  • Happily

• Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • People
  • Giving
  • Cutting

• You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

  

  Jay Weatherill

• I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Strong
  • Environment
  • New

• Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
  • Age
  • Die

• The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Strong