Jackie Robinson Quotes
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
Jackie Robinson
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
Dan Aykroyd
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
Lady Gaga
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
D. H. Lawrence
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
Taylor Sheridan
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
Callie Khouri
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
Gary Sheffield
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
Tatyana Ali
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
Usher
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
Rachel Stevens
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Paris Hilton
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
Orville Redenbacher
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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
Sal Albanese
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
Ian Hislop
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
Rachel Roy
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As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.
Rik Mayall
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
Jackie Robinson
