Ossie Davis Quotes
I couldn't think of a better way to pay tribute to him, ... I can't imagine his spirit being any happier than to receive this kind of honor.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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I'm curvy.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.
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The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
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In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust.
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I couldn't think of a better way to pay tribute to him, ... I can't imagine his spirit being any happier than to receive this kind of honor.
