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Dick Gregory Quotes

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

Dick Gregory

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 12, 1932

Topics

Mother Death Christian Lady You She

I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.

Melissa Rivers

Love Dress New York People Dinner

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

John Hughes

Business Action Camera Train Movies

I've had everything pierced at some point.

Amy Winehouse

Everything Point Some Pierced Had

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

Stuart Pearce

Life Black And White Football Parents

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Simon Mainwaring

Power Influence More Ability Buying

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

Michel Faber

Life Childhood Memory Remember Early

I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.

Michael Owen

Life Love World Think Thinking You

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Thoughts Thought Through Lot

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Lou Gramm

Work Road Better Enough You Company

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

Dick Cavett

Yourself You Admit Sometimes Need

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

Donald Tusk

Angry Plain Getting Incapable Angela

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Archer John Porter Martin

First Discouraged Every Taken Often