Terrence LeVarr Thornton (Pusha T) Quotes

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.

Terrence LeVarr Thornton

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• I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Character
  • Worry

• All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Challenge

• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • School
  • She

• What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • Obnoxious
  • Visionary

• Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Great
  • Think
  • Yourself

• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Moving

• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  

  Walt Disney
  • End
  • Independence
  • Symbol

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Know
  • Belief
  • Inside

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Sometimes
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Thought

• I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Woman

• I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Style
  • Will
  • My Own

• The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Real
  • Truth

• The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Family
  • American
  • Fear

• If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.

  

  Jimmy Iovine

• We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Christmas
  • Realizing
  • Economic

• But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Questions
  • Obedience
  • Loving Arms

• If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds.

  

  Andy Richter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton