George C. Wallace Quotes

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

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• 'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Past
  • Single

• I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Words
  • Effort

• What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Tradition
  • Fact

• I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Good
  • Social Media

• You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Think

• I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Never
  • Getting
  • Knew

• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Life
  • Wonder

• There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Family
  • Lost

• A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • May
  • Job
  • High

• All of my businesses are profitable.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Businesses
  • Profitable

• Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Words

• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Look

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Gentleman

• The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Life
  • Know
  • Spiritual

• Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People

• Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Death

• The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Imagination

• I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back to you.” Naked emotion turned the sea green into hidden emeralds. Pressing her fingers to his lips, she shook her head. “You never have to ask, Galen. Forever, that’s how long I’d wait for you.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Long
  • She
  • Forever

• If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Pride

• I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

  

  George C. Wallace
  • Forever