"...It looked very different from the Statue of……" — Josephine Baker
"...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower"
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45 Quotes by Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker has 45 quotes on this site.
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But…
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I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other…
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I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because…
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I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
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You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
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Art is an elastic sort of love.
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I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so…
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing,…
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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he…
— Honore de Balzac
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not…
— Marina Abramovic
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Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else…
— Andy Rooney
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I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker
— Cillian Murphy
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I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.
— Johnnie Ray
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Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and…
— Unknown Author
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I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were…
— Arabella Weir
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of…
— Ernst Junger
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Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had…
— Julia Child
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the…
— Polly Adler
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When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker.
— Zach Braff
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In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one…
— Ann Hood
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