Morris Dees Quotes

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Morris Dees

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1936

Topics

EducationConfidenceChildrenFocus

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Jimmy Connors

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I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Mayim Bialik

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My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.

Maz Jobrani

MomLawLawyerYouNewBecome

Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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I watched the Tyson-Holyfield fight with Stallone. I remember when Tyson bit him, Sly looked at me and said, 'I think he bit him'. I said, 'I think you're right, Rock.'

Stephen Lang

FightMeThinkRememberYouRock

Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.

Tom Verica

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My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.

Lisa Lutz

MotherConstructionWrinklesHide

The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

Christopher Walken

CookingInterestingYouHouseKnow

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

Conor Oberst

MyselfMeWritingConfidentReach

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Claudia Christian

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I don't have the fear of my looks changing.

Bonnie Hunt

FearLooksChanging

I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.

Priyanka Chopra

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