White Quotes - Page 33

• She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Dark, Color, Greek

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• I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Land

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• Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Hair, Office

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• Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Meaningful, Children, People

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• I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• I'm really white trash.

  George Clooney

  White Trash, Trash

  Entertainment Weekly Interview, December 9, 1994.

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• I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

  Chuck Close

  Poor, Trash, States

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• I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

  Diablo Cody

  Summer, Clothings, Knows

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• Unfortunately I don't live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

  Diablo Cody

  People, Work Out, Target

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• I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.

  Sasha Cohen

  Crazy, Simple, Vegetables

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• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Vacation, Car

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  Gail Collins

  War, Black And White, America

  Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  Gail Collins

  Running, House, Doe

  "No Longer Debatable — Campaigns Matter". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

  Billy Corgan

  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

  Billy Corgan

  Winning, Cities, Organization

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• When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

  Bill Cosby

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The outspoken Bill Cosby". www.cnn.com. November 12, 2004.

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• I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

  Kevin Costner

  War, Cutting, Long

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• Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

  John Cusack

  Islamic, Black And White, Evil

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• To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

  e. e. cummings

  Insulting, Black, Individual

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• I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

  Puff Daddy

  Angel, Puff, Safe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

  Jonathan Davis

  Thinking, America, House

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• I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

  Paula Deen

  Tomatoes, Bells, Sausage

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• I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

  Johnny Depp

  Red, Taste, Leisure

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• I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

  Janice Dickinson

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• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  Matt Dillon

  Dad, Wagons, Nine

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