A. Philip Randolph Quotes

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

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• It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Space
  • Years
  • Battle

• The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Great
  • Women

• I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Punishment
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Political
  • Abuse
  • Medical

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
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  • France

• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Money
  • Power
  • Peace

• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Israel
  • General
  • Prime Minister

• It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Like
  • Position
  • Valid

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more. if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Struggle

• There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • America
  • Parents

• One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Culture
  • Peace

• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Family
  • Home
  • Mother

• I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
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• Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

  

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