Constance Baker Motley Quotes
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.
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I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.
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The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
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I've always been interested in art.
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It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
