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David Levering Lewis Quotes

Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.

David Levering Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1936

Topics

Work Government Work Hard Care New

Women rule men's lives - every decision a man makes is based on a woman.

Women Decision Men Woman Man Rule

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

Melvin Van Peebles

People Black Think Talking You Back

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

Music Time Me Writing Guitar Create

Pride was a date night - the cool thing to do at the time - so people were dressed to the nines, and they got quite an experience, visually and otherwise. It was Cirque du Soleil meets the Super Bowl meets WrestleMania meets your favorite rock n' roll concert.

Time Experience People Cool Night

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

Strength People Unity Buildings Real

We feel like if we miss a Sunday at church, that's one thing, but we can't miss an opportunity to help.

Opportunity Church Feel Help Sunday

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

John Polkinghorne

Hope Experience Start Think Reality

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Truth Language Bad Between Much Use

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.

Robbie Robertson

Mother Me Born She Kid Relatives

For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

Good Day Me Name End Someone

I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.

Women Makeup Think Seeing Look Way

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

Christie Hefner

Great New York City Think New Own

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