White Quotes - Page 39

• I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Cocky, School, Kids

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hair, Color, Dry

  "My List: Karl Lagerfeld in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

  Hedy Lamarr

  House, Experts, Citizenship

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• It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Simple, Player

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• Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

  Queen Latifah

  Girl, Different, Flavor

  "Making It Big". Interview with Michelle Tan, people.com. November 5, 2007.

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Want, Harlem

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

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• I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

  Hugh Laurie

  Men, Hands, People

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

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• I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

  Spike Lee

  College, Giving, Black

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• Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

  Spike Lee

  Men, People, Black

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• There are very few really stark black and white stories.

  Jim Lehrer

  Black And White, Stories, Starks

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". "CJR Daily" with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Wall, Thinking, Space

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• I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

  Annie Lennox

  Black And White, House, Tvs

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• Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

  Jay Leno

  Anchors, House, Actors

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• A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

  Matthew Lesko

  Lying, Communication, Degrees

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• Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Multiple Choice, Choices, House

  Address to Incoming House GOP Freshmen, delivered 10 December 1994, Baltimore, MD

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• Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islands, Forgiving, Special

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• The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, House, Firsts

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• If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

  Eric Liu

  Years, People, Black

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• Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

  Eric Liu

  Liberty, Today, Pressure

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• Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.

  Stacy London

  Shoes, Labor Day, Handbags

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• It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, America

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• But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

  Audre Lorde

  Hands, Racism, Bored

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• I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

  John Lydon

  School, Discovery, Sharks

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• Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

  Bill Maher

  Class, House, Comedy

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• The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

  Bill Maher

  Phones, Color, Giving

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