Dorothy Height Quotes
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.
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There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
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For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!
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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
