Hattie McDaniel Quotes

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

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• A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Important
  • Balance

• I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Rock
  • Listen
  • Rock And Roll

• I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Think
  • Early

• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Actor
  • Still
  • Appearances

• Going to the conventions, seeing the incredible amount of love that people put into their clothing, costumes, gadgetry, and art of all kinds, is a huge treat for me.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Art
  • Incredible

• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Good
  • Free
  • Being

• It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Just
  • Global
  • Sit

• Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Live
  • Society

• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  

  Hans Kung
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I believe God will make a way.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Believe
  • Way

• I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Mainstream
  • Decade
  • Desktop

• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Business
  • Understand
  • Blame

• Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

  

  Bono U2
  • Contradiction
  • Centre
  • Smack

• And I wish that I was made of stone So that I would not have to see A beauty impossible to define A beauty impossible to believe A beauty impossible to endure The blood imparted in little sips The smell of you still on my hands As I bring the cup up to my lips No God up in the sky No devil beneath the sea Could do the job that you did, baby Of bringing me to my knees...

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Wish
  • Beauty
  • Made

• I think New Mexico State is a really good team. The way they're playing lately, this is going to be a heck of a game for us.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Game
  • Team
  • Playing

• I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • People
  • Playing
  • Performing

• You have to know you can first. How comes later.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • You
  • Know
  • First

• I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

  

  Hattie McDaniel
  • Playing
  • Maid