Esther Rolle Quotes

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

Esther Rolle

• Money
• Love
• Luxury

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• Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Different
  • Real
  • Peace

• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

  

  A. James Clark
  • People
  • Good
  • Opportunities

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Hopefully

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Truth
  • History
  • Satisfaction

• One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • History
  • True

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Three

• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Path
  • Influence
  • Down

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Character
  • Driving

• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Death
  • Victim
  • Punish

• I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Better
  • Lights

• The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

  

  Melissa George
  • Long
  • Things
  • Journey

• There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Believe
  • Nothing
  • Really

• How many people can say they had Anna Wintour on a record? Not even an album, just a mixtape? It's audacious, disrespectful, and I feel like it's a little bit raw, and that's what Dirty Money is.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • People
  • Money
  • Dirty

• I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

  

  Esther Rolle
  • Money
  • Love
  • Luxury