Billy Porter Quotes

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

Billy Porter

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• I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Simple

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Want
  • Talk

• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • College

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Wind

• Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Different
  • Man
  • Rest

• Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Know
  • Language
  • Painting

• There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Never
  • Experiences
  • Fishing

• There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Work
  • Together
  • Understanding

• Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Business
  • Risk
  • Financial

• I wanted to have a free life.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Free
  • Wanted

• Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Opportunity
  • Mood

• Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Art

• And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Sex

• From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Today

• We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.

  

  Burnie Burns

• I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

  

  Joel Kinnaman

• But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Evolution
  • Wishes
  • Fancies

• Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Life
  • Why
  • Remember

• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Service

• We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

  

  Billy Porter