Alveda King Quotes

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

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• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • You
  • Look
  • Bed

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Community
  • Hand
  • Dead

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Happiness

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Funny
  • Woman
  • Grateful

• My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.

  

  Kathleen Rubins

• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

  

  Epictetus
  • Time
  • Great
  • Desire

• It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

  

  Kanye West
  • Real
  • Giving
  • inspirational

• The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.

  

  Artie Lange
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Life
  • Justice