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

• I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Money

• I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

  

  Mercy Otis Warren
  • Passion
  • Complicated
  • Patriot

• The sheer waste of human potential that was the New Republic’s raison d’être offended her sensibilities as badly as a public book-burning, or a massacre of innocents.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Book

• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Accept
  • Infinity

• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Music
  • Human Beings
  • Sounds

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

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton