Constance Baker Motley Quotes

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

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• But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Mind
  • Find
  • Unconscious

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Shopping
  • Taxes

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Up
  • God
  • Eye

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Lust

• I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Live
  • Like
  • Never

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
  • Freakish

• I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Energy
  • Always
  • Try

• Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Brilliant
  • Actress

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Wife

• I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Work
  • School
  • City

• My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

  

  Amy Adams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Good
  • Different
  • American

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Black