A. Philip Randolph Quotes
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
Quotes to Explore
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
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You should always feel confident in everything you wear, no matter what trend you fit or don't fit into.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
