Constance Baker Motley Quotes

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

Constance Baker Motley

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• 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 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 have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• When I signed onto 'Superman,' editors Matt Idelson and Wil Moss gave me a rough outline that JMS had turned in for the remaining issues of the 'Grounded' arc, which amounted to a couple of sentences for each issue, spelling out in general terms where the issue would take place geographically, specific guest stars, things like that.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Couple
  • Superman

• Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

  

  Chief Seattle
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Borders

• My work is always very geometric.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Work

• I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Relationship

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

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Black