Malcolm X Quotes

As featured in The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley and cited in Malcolm X: Why I Embraced Islam by Yusuf Siddiqui.

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• It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Character

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Me
  • Couple
  • Garden

• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success
  • Being
  • Potential

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Feel

• There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Often
  • Analogy
  • Misleading

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Hours
  • Heard

• There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

  

  James Payn
  • Risk

• The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

  

  Alain Prost
  • People
  • Car

• I think I intimidate hecklers because I weigh more than most of them.

  

  Bruce Vilanch

• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Why
  • Humanity

• As featured in The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley and cited in Malcolm X: Why I Embraced Islam by Yusuf Siddiqui.

  

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