Ruby Dee Quotes

Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.

Ruby Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014

Topics

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Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.

John Astin

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More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

John Barth

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The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

John Edgar Wideman

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Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.

Andrew Gould

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In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place.

Tracy Kidder

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We get angry about the small things sometimes, I feel, so that we feel like we're doing something, so that we don't have to tackle the big things. And it's fine; let people do that. But I'm not gonna now change because of that. You know? Like, the worst thing that happens to me is you don't like me. And then what?

Trevor Noah

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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Robert Frost

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The white nationalist position, David Duke has always espoused that. The belief that immigrants are a threat to America and that we need border control, David Duke espoused that, and he talked about it during the time I was dealing with him.

Ron Stallworth

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I'm definitely looking forward to DJing in Scotland again. There's always fun and a great party vibe.

Little Louie Vega

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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Doris Lessing

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An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

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I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

Brooke Burns

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