Predominantly Quotes

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.

We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.