Dorothy Height Quotes

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Why
  • Remember
  • True

• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • First

• I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Happy
  • Thankful

• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Communication
  • Either

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Good
  • Done
  • Better

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • World
  • Power
  • Me

• When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Man

• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Know
  • Look

• I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • School
  • Party
  • Taken

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • Great
  • Literature

• The audience is the barometer of the truth.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Audience
  • Barometer

• I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • People
  • Famous

• It's really important that I have a personal life.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Life
  • Important

• Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator . . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Humans
  • Battery
  • Indicator

• She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything's pink. She makes a certain move that's ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I'm evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She's fearless, and I love her.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • She
  • Style
  • Superhero

• It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She's an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She's one of a kind.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Time
  • Done
  • She

• Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • She
  • Goals
  • Greatness