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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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
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Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
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Got the bubble-headed bleach blonde who comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die: give us dirty laundry.
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In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
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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.
