Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.Samuel L. Jackson
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
Taron Egerton -
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany -
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
Fede Alvarez -
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
Dada Vaswani -
I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
Gary Bettman -
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan -
For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
Vince Vaughn -
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell -
A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
Kacey Musgraves -
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith -
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
Harley Viera-Newton
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West -
I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden -
I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
Rachel Bloom -
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor -
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson
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It's a wonderful machine that had done good things, and it's got a lot of good to do yet.
John Young -
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
Immanuel Kant -
To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away - and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.
Arthur C. Clarke -
Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.
Peter T. King -
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
Samuel L. Jackson