David C. Driskell Quotes

We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody stuck to those laws, but we were cognizant of the importance of trying to live up to that code.

David C. Driskell

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• Responsibility
• Importance

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• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

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• The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.

  

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• I usually sleep just a few hours a night.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
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• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

  

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• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
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• When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

  

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• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

  

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• A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

  

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• I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.

  

  Cameron Russell
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• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

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• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  

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• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

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• There are three kinds of people-the living, the dead, and those at sea.

  

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• As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.

  

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• All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

  

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• I have always idolized eccentric people.

  

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• In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

  

  Alexandra Petri
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• We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody stuck to those laws, but we were cognizant of the importance of trying to live up to that code.

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Importance