"My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful"

-- Hattie McDaniel

#Grateful Quotes #Desire Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.”

Source : Courtney Milan (2011). “Unclaimed”, p.71, HQN Books
“Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.”

Source : Liberal leadership convention, 1968.
“I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.”
“Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.”
“Think about it: everybody you know, everyone that you meet, also know about 250 people. So every time you cultivate a relationship with one new person, you have actually expanded your personal inventory by 250 people - every single time.”
“The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.”
“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”

Source : "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.
“My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.”

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