Dolores Huerta Quotes

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.

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• We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Kings

• Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Feeling
  • Know
  • Die

• Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Future
  • Child
  • Story

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• I'm a very proud actor.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • Very

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Value
  • Rich
  • Surprised

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.

  

  Washed Out
  • Just
  • Normal
  • Unfortunately

• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Orphan

• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Important
  • Very
  • Health care

• I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Victory

• Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• (He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Money

• I sit at my table en grand seigneur,And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor;Not only the pleasure, one’s self, of good living,But also the pleasure of now and then giving.So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!So pleasant it is to have money.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Good
  • Money
  • Done

• I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • First
  • Inside
  • Weapons

• It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • World
  • Career
  • Superhero

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Design

• It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it.

  

  Dolores Huerta