Derek Luke Quotes

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

Derek Luke

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• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Women

• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • God
  • Society

• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • People
  • Love
  • Comedy

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Opinion

• I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Cancer
  • Price
  • Move

• In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Order
  • Answers
  • Questions

• I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Father

• I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • End
  • Doing

• The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • World
  • Me
  • Fashion

• Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Happy
  • Fool
  • Ignorance

• Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

  

  Alan Watts
  • People
  • Men
  • Important

• My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Life
  • Single

• I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.

  

  Mary Balogh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People

• 'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Great
  • Experience

• The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Energy
  • Disparate

• Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Good
  • Women
  • Design

• Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Deep
  • Courage

• I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

  

  Maynard Webb
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sick

• I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

  

  Derek Luke