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.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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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.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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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.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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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.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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We care about margins.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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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.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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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.
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I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
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Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
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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.
