Fanny Jackson Coppin Quotes

A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

Fanny Jackson Coppin

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Gay
  • Sad
  • Down

• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Brain
  • Start
  • You Can Do It

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.

  

  Iman
  • Like
  • Look
  • Everyday

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Day

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Plan
  • Defeat
  • Early

• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Rock
  • Things
  • Songwriter

• I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • God
  • Nice

• I don't know if anyone should do anything that's not authentic to them.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony

• I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • God
  • Teenager

• Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in her own regularly scheduled Martha Stewart television show. Martha saw herself as Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Rupert Murdoch all rolled into one juicy pie.

  

  Jerry Oppenheimer
  • Thinking
  • She
  • America

• Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are?

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Why

• A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

  

  Fanny Jackson Coppin
  • Thinking
  • Respect
  • Wish