Derrick Bell Quotes
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.
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You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.
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You're probably thinkin’ that you're gonna change me;In some ways well maybe you might.Scrub me down, dress me up.Oh but no matter what,Remember, I'm still a guy.
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Evolution doesn’t greatly care about what happens to creatures once they’ve passed on their genetic heritage.
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
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When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.
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It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do.
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The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that character. There is no better feeling than that feeling.
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My family's a ruling family.
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I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
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Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.
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Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.
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We are struggling with racism, but racism is also alive and well in many other countries. And what we must overcome is racism being the cause of conflict. And what we need to recognize human beings as human beings; to award merit.
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I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.
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One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
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Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
