Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

Douglas Southall Freeman

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• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Long
  • Dance

• In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Jewish

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Hand
  • Candy

• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Thought
  • Patience
  • Year

• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Country
  • Father
  • Poverty

• My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Up
  • Women
  • Movie

• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Everything

• My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Different
  • Home
  • Situation

• I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Fear

• French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• There can be no doubt as to the facts as I have stated them. Orthodoxy derives from this axiomatic foundation, and the two systems are mutually reinforcing: hence each is doubly validated.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Doubt

• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • War
  • Song

• A couple alleged males attempted to sucker punch a 100-pound woman and missed. And they ended up with their faces smashed in and spending the night in the Pima County Jail, where I'm sure - being good liberals - their views on gay marriage will serve them well.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Help
  • Mother

• I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Guy
  • Luck

• Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

  

  T.R. Reid

• My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, 'What's for tea?'

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Work
  • Important
  • Children

• I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Trying

• Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

  

  Douglas Southall Freeman