Audra McDonald Quotes

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

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• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Religion

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Marriage
  • Too Much
  • Much

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Choice

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • World
  • Myself
  • Problems

• If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dance
  • Successful
  • Tennis

• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up
  • Good
  • Truth

• When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • World
  • Women
  • Black

• I grew up in neighbouring Hawaii, where Tahiti is regarded as a brother.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Up
  • Brother

• They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God

• Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

  

  Audra McDonald
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