Hattie McDaniel Quotes

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

Hattie McDaniel

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• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Name

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Today
  • Want
  • Tomorrow

• I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Tough

• Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Me

• Did you figure out the second head fake? This talk's not for you. It's for my kids.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Fake

• The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Up
  • Real
  • Father

• The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Important
  • Relationship

• It is not the biographer's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives.

  

  Lytton Strachey
  • Business

• If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • People
  • Life
  • Path

• What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's 'Iliad,' I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Chinese

• To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Hate

• I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Important
  • May
  • Small

• Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Important
  • Words

• In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Music
  • Present

• I didn't like being a name attached to a book.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Book

• Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.

  

  Lisanne Falk
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Attitude

• A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I always wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be John Wayne.

  

  Bill Engvall

• At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

  

  John Strachan
  • World
  • She
  • Moral

• I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Fighting

• Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Values
  • Rings
  • Creosote

• But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

  

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi
  • Evil
  • Glory
  • Tale

• That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

  

  Hattie McDaniel
  • Rabbit's foot
  • Warner contract