Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

This is really a difficult time to be in films.

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• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Content
  • Fair
  • Material

• I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Wanted
  • More

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
  • World
  • Mother
  • Myself

• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Me
  • Part
  • Grew

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Career
  • Want

• Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Book
  • Relationship
  • Excited

• I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • High
  • Used
  • Extremely

• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Important
  • Me

• If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Change
  • Me
  • Stronger

• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • My Life

• When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

  

  David Baltimore
  • Brain

• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • History

• Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

  

  John Ortberg

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Bought
  • Bankrupted

• This is really a difficult time to be in films.

  

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