Esther Rolle Quotes

I told them the producers I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

Esther Rolle

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• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
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• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

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• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
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• Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
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  • Losing
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• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
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• I have matured a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lot
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• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Art
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• When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
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  • Country

• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • You
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• This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Divorce

• We now live in an era where everybody is rich, and for some reason, everybody has a $20K bag. It is great to have those things, but I want the people who follow me to feel inspired and not jealous. Once you figure out your overall message, then you can push forward.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
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• My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.

  

  Jessica Pare
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• I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

  

  David Brock
  • Up

• If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.

  

  Kresley Cole
  • Up
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  • Words

• We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

  

  Buddha
  • World
  • Thoughts

• I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Children
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  • Hate

• I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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• I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Children
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• I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.

  

  Betty White
  • Done
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  • Animal

• I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Work
  • Children
  • Growing

• I told them the producers I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

  

  Esther Rolle
  • Children
  • Black
  • Proud