Vine Deloria, Jr. Quotes

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

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• I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Person
  • Nation
  • Pressured

• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Writing
  • Color

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Stop

• Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Bad
  • See

• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Men
  • Inevitable

• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • World
  • Why
  • Father

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• A secret is a secret in my mind.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Mind
  • Secret

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Life
  • Family
  • Health

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • High
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Worry
  • Big

• I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Way
  • Always

• There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Today
  • Like

• Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• A piece of rusty pump and a pile of stones,--all that was left of the place he and Marthy had called home. Home. What a big word that was. Lots of attempts made lately to belittle it. Plenty of fun poked at it. Young folks laughed about it,--called it a place to park. Everybody wanted to get some place else, seemed like. They'd find out. They'd understand some day. When they got old, they'd know. They'd want to go home. sometimes in their lives everybody wanted to go home.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Word

• If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Goal
  • Building
  • Realizing

• I think that anyone who promotes in a group starts at some point to think about what they are going to do after their group disbands. When I started thinking about that myself, I thought back to my reason for becoming a singer.

  

  Jeon Ji-yoon
  • Group
  • Singer
  • Becoming

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Goal
  • Unconscious
  • Royalty