Omar Benson Miller Quotes

'8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.

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• The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Trouble

• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Why
  • Age
  • Parents

• If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Son
  • Cat
  • Pictures

• The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Reason

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Band

• Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Why
  • Science
  • Learn

• I was possessed by London.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • London
  • Possessed

• I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Guilty
  • Percent
  • Not Guilty

• I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.

  

  Valerie June
  • Money
  • Practice
  • Dog

• Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.

  

  K. Flay
  • You
  • Dark
  • Places

• A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Person
  • Human
  • Precious

• For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Guy
  • Parents

• I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Great
  • Air
  • Workout

• That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Up
  • Song
  • Rock

• Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • Believe
  • Environment

• '8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.

  

  Omar Benson Miller