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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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 try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
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There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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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.
