Rae Dawn Chong Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
-
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
-
When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
-
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
-
I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
-
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
-
I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
-
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
-
When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
-
If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
-
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
-
We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
-
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
-
When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
-
100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
-
Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
-
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
-
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
-
When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
-
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
-
For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.
-
With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.
-
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
-
You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
