Esther Rolle Quotes

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

Esther Rolle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 8, 1920 - November 17, 1998

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In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

Joanna Newsom

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You can't argue with stupidity.

Jermaine Jackson

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This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.

Johan Cruyff

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Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

Max Eastman

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A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

Michael Foot

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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

John Perry Barlow

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My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

Simon Sinek

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You must stand for free speech in the streets.

Mary Harris Jones

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A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.

Brunello Cucinelli

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I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.

Anthony McCarten

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Oh my God. Brian De Palma. I love him.

Petra Collins

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Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

Peter Jackson

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