Derek Luke Quotes

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

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• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Want
  • Me
  • Look

• The American people are frustrated.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • American
  • Frustrated

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Free
  • Small

• I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Woman

• The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Challenge
  • Fly
  • Flying

• You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Professional
  • Rap

• The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • America
  • Change

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • First
  • Constitution
  • Class

• Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • You
  • Doing
  • More

• It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • God
  • Sense
  • Without

• Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Real
  • Father
  • Game

• Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Work
  • Player
  • Confidence

• If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God

• Donald Trump’s voice is resonating with average Americans who feel their voice has been lost by their party, I believe this will become a new Republican Party, one that we should embrace. We should be the party of working men and women, the party of America first.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • War
  • Despair
  • Killing

• How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Time
  • Young
  • Events

• Is all the world jails and churches?

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World

• 'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Wish

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Care
  • Example

• I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

  

  Derek Luke