Dontrelle Willis Quotes

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

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• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Want
  • Rest

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Whole
  • Rather

• At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Time
  • Job
  • Thought

• Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Proud

• When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Person
  • Guilty
  • Found

• I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

  

  Fleur East
  • Practice
  • Mirror
  • Autograph

• Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Dad

• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Tree

• Oh, when I was in love with youThen I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well did I behave.And now the fancy passes byAnd nothing will remain,And miles around they'll say that IAm quite myself again.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Wonder
  • Brave

• If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• You don't get something for nothingYou can't have freedom for free.You won't get wiseWith the sleep still in your eyesNo matter what your dream might be. - Something for Nothing (1976)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dream
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • Nice

• Even in times of war, you can see current events in their historical perspective, provided that your passion for the truth prevails over your bias in favor of your own nation.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Truth
  • War
  • Passion

• Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.

  

  Edward Davey
  • Game
  • Issues
  • Politician

• What a betrayal of man's dignity. He uses the highest gift, his mind, only ten percent, and his emotions and instincts ninety percent.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Betrayal

• I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven

• I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

  

  Dontrelle Willis