Jaleel White Quotes

The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

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• I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Find

• I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Think
  • Knowledge
  • Software

• I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• I find the business world hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Business
  • Find

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Team
  • Games

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Government
  • Never

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Me
  • Confidence

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Path

• One of the big drivers for me is that health care is a very elitist system. As much as we try to make it free and democratic for all, the reality is that it's expensive and not all therapies are accessible to all people. So I have been very focused on making sure that we democratize genetic information so it's available to everyone.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • People
  • Free
  • Reality

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Future
  • Change

• My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Myself
  • Like

• The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

  

  Jaleel White
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