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.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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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.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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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.
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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.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.
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I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.
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I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.
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I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
