bell hooks Quotes
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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'Army of one': when the shit hits the fan, you're on your own.14.
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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'Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.'
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
