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David Dinkins Quotes

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

David Dinkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1927

Topics

World Think Confident Difference Him

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Jessica Valenti

Power Justice Woman Racism Movement

I lived in Chicago in the early '80s and did a ton of theater, and then Nick lived there in the '90s and did a ton of theater. Then we both moved to L.A. and did a ton of television.

Megan Mullally

Early Television Chicago Lived Moved

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

John Irving

Great Me Expectations Wish Important

I'm incredibly articulate, thoughtful and moral, and I think about what I do. I want to be known for doing something good.

Simon Fuller

Good Think Doing Thoughtful Moral

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

Tom Weston-Jones

Nature World Photographer Anything

Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.

Mike D

Change Women Past People Disrespect

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

Michael Tubbs

Patience Time People Me Status Quo

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Jean Cocteau

Art Priesthood Pastime

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

David Zucker

Funny Time Think You Serious Movies

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.

Courtney Barnett

People Feel Talking Comfortable Way

'Rudhramadevi' is a film which falls into a very new genre. It is a historic and biographic genre movie. It should be called a bio epic. I am curious to see how the audiences accept the film.

Allu Arjun

I Am Curious New Accept See Film

All our compatriots know that the loss of Mongolia would mean the demise of our country. We would rather resist Russia and die heroically than succumb to Russia and perish shamefully.

Sun Yat-sen

Loss Die Country Know Mean Russia