Mario Van Peebles Quotes

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

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• I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Napoleon

• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
  • Music
  • Animals

• I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Feminism

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.

  

  Jack Black
  • Many
  • How
  • Drop

• You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Start
  • Risks

• Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Experience
  • Lost

• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• When I give I give myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Myself
  • Romantic
  • Give

• Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • American
  • House

• More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Libraries

• I walked on the Moon. What can’t you do?

  

  Gene Cernan
  • Moon

• I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

  

  Martin Parr

• When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Perfect

• In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Political
  • Perfect
  • Religious

• When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

  

  Mario Van Peebles
  • Perfect