Camille Dungy (Camille T. Dungy) Quotes
So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
-
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
-
You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
-
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
-
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
-
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
-
Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
-
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
-
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
-
It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
-
What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
-
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
-
I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
-
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
-
I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
-
Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
-
Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
-
Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
-
I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.
-
If I cared about what you thought, I'd be writing for National Geographic or something.
-
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.
-
Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
-
So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.
