Dorothy Dandridge Quotes
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.
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The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save the lives of those who fought the battle of righteousness.
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Politics doesn't matter, policy does.
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
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American and Italian women stimulate designers to do new things.
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If I were white, I could capture the world.
