Rick Dees (Rigdon Osmond Dees III) Quotes

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

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• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Singing
  • Plan
  • Profession

• Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Working
  • Hollywood

• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Necessary

• They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Young

• For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Life
  • Necessary
  • Restriction

• Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Famous
  • Actors
  • Necessary

• Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Common Sense
  • Provided

• Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Learned
  • Conversation
  • Profession

• One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Profession

• I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Advice

• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poet
  • Profession
  • Condition

• We are ready to go to New York if necessary.

  

  Javier Solana
  • New York
  • Ready
  • Necessary

• Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friendship
  • Life is
  • Necessary

• Gains in commodities provided a positive backdrop for the Canadian dollar.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Gains
  • Provided
  • Canadian Dollar

• The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

  

  Socrates
  • Understanding
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics

• Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Brave
  • Lives
  • Necessary

• I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heaven
  • Thought
  • Year

• I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Slavery
  • Emerges

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Morning

• My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Mother
  • Bible
  • Across

• The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

  

  Rick Dees
  • Profession
  • Necessary
  • Provided