Don King Quotes

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

Don King

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DayPeopleDignityWouldHeClothed

Whenever the media asked me how much I have received in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, my unapologetic answer was, 'Not enough.'

Jim Inhofe

MeEnoughMediaAnswerIndustryHow

What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation and separation.

Joe Gebbia

FutureCommunityCultureIsolation

I'm quite sure we all have a sweet love song that we dance to or recall from our wedding or something, like 'At Last,' but I think that it is the love-gone-wrong songs that touch even men.

Jennifer Holliday

LoveMenDanceSweetSongThink

For some reason for me, and a lot of people, it's so hard to accept help even when it's from your closest friends.

Jenna Morasca

PeopleMeFriendsHelpAcceptHard

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Steven Pinker

BrainMeaningYouSoundEmotionRaw

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.

Tracie Thoms

WorkCultureSchoolLearnActing

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

Tonya Harding

MoneyFriendsDifferentAroundMoved

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

Mike Krzyzewski

LifeMomMy LifePersonAlwaysUp

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.

Michiko Kakutani

VisionHistoryLightMyselfPastMe

Social realism takes research.

Debra Granik

ResearchSocialRealismTakes

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.

Cote de Pablo

EducationLiveCultureThinkBetter

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

Chrysippus

FateSayOthersMeanThroughThings

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