Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

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• President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Right
  • Security
  • Decisions

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Policy
  • Source
  • Consistent

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Different
  • Important

• If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Tone

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Attention
  • Learn
  • Laugh

• I believe in my writing.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • I Believe

• A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Knowledge
  • Air

• Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Rose

• Before the phantom of False morning died, Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried, 'When all the Temple is prepared within, Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Morning

• I wanna be high, so high.I wanna be free to knowThe things I do are right.I wanna be free,Just me, babe!That's why I'm easy.I'm easy like Sunday morning.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Why
  • High
  • Free

• Fascism was not the protector of any one class, but a supreme regulator of the relations between all citizens of a state.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Live

• My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

  

  Marine Le Pen

• I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Worry

• My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Father

• You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Teacher

• I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans