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 am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Effort

• 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

• Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Single
  • Problem
  • Sad

• A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Truth

• The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Inspiration
  • Grew Up
  • Shakespeare

• Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Done

• Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • World
  • Trying
  • Job

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

  

  Omar Benson Miller