Djimon Hounsou Quotes

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • Style
  • Makeup

• I don't care about losses anymore.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Care
  • Anymore
  • Losses

• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Problem
  • Mistake
  • Same

• You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Today
  • You
  • Class

• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Audience

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dignity

• I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Drama

• No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Doctor

• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • People
  • Great
  • Doing

• I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Ruin
  • Campaign
  • Slander

• On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

  

  Jack Adams
  • End
  • Chicago
  • December

• I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Trust
  • Advice

• One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  

  Manning Marable
  • May
  • America
  • Black

• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Game

• Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Age
  • Chance
  • Finding

• Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Love
  • VIolin
  • Goats

• The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Economic
  • Cooperation
  • Essentials

• I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Up
  • She
  • Morning

• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Funny
  • Die

• Don’t execute other peoples advice if you can’t explain why you’re doing it.

  

  Steve Blank
  • People
  • Advice
  • Explain

• Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

  

  Djimon Hounsou