Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
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A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
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When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact.
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Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
