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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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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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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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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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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Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
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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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Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
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I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
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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...
