Constance Baker Motley Quotes
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.
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I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
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I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
