Jackie Robinson Quotes

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

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• I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Say
  • Conservative
  • Leather

• Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Islamic

• To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Food
  • Production
  • Absurd

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • Reviews
  • Turkey

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Think

• You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Money
  • Father

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Name
  • Princess
  • Constance Marie

• The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Party

• To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Everyday

• I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Up
  • Song
  • Moments

• I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Party
  • Myself