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Pearl Bailey Quotes

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1918 - August 17, 1990

Topics

Help Nobody First Something Wants

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

Maurizio Cattelan

You Without Being Proof Militant

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

John Ross Bowie

Live Children City Doing You Decide

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Marriage Time You More Invest

I think the therapeutic part of acting is allowing myself to step into another human being's shoes. It allows me the ability to release judgment, if I had any judgment to begin with. It's an opportunity to understand rather than to stand outside and point fingers.

Sterling K. Brown

Opportunity Shoes Myself Step Me

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

Mother Growing Up Singing Growing Up

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

Me Conversation Memorable President

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.

Confident Will Get Deserves

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

Change People Me Thinking Important

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

You Matter Prepare Two Everything

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Clarence Thomas

People Black Wrong Way Up Myths

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

Bradley Wiggins

Balance Down Difficult Right Fine

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Today Criticism Fat Moral Become

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