Dionne Warwick Quotes

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Dionne Warwick

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• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Yourself

• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Everything

• Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Married

• Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • House
  • New York
  • Living

• In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Soul
  • Fall
  • Boy

• Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • War
  • Tired

• No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Country
  • Israel

• I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Novelist

• A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Circumstances
  • Merger

• A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Strength
  • Nation
  • Others

• I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Money
  • True
  • Dream

• I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • She
  • Dream

• Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate. I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • Fate

• I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.

  

  Lu Xun
  • Death
  • Guilty

• I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • World
  • Women
  • Dream

• They have done so much day in and day out and I want to thank all my friends and family, particularly my mother, who was born before women could vote, and is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Family
  • Done

• If I have just an ounce of sense, I follow the great Way, and fear only to stray from it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fear
  • Sense
  • Great Way

• I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

  

  David Mallet
  • Brave

• Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Good
  • Legend
  • Right Now

• So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger", in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Shirley Valentine

• My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

  

  Dionne Warwick