Marlon Wayans Quotes

You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.

Marlon Wayans

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• I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Dream
  • Inspired
  • Architecture

• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Success
  • Humble

• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Republic

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Want
  • Never
  • Hotel

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Small
  • Local
  • Overlooked

• I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • War
  • Serious
  • Politics

• Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.

  

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Life

• You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Life
  • Luck