Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
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I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.
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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
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Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.
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I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.
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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
