Hattie McDaniel Quotes
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book...
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
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I read a lot of history, and I know that once upon a time, a coin was worth $5 if it had $5 worth of gold in it. Now we have paper that is just backed by fiat... Maybe in the new world, something gets backed by consensus.
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You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
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It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
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Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
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We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A.D. 80, two full generations before the date between 130 and 150 given by the more radical New Testament critics of today.
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In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book...