Jeffrey Wright Quotes

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

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• We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Without
  • WIld

• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Character
  • Career

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• You have to open up on stage.

  

  Karen O
  • Up
  • You
  • Stage

• When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Red
  • Loves
  • Cares

• If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Keep

• Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • World
  • Picture
  • Physics

• I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Travel

• In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fire
  • Symbol

• Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Hand
  • Wind
  • Architecture

• I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Winning

• Cheney shots his buddy in the face. Clinton shot his intern in the face.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• I wanted something ephemeral, that would pass like a falling star and, most importantly, that would be impossible for museums to reabsorb. I didn't want it to be 'museumised'. The work had to pass by, make people dream and talk, and that would be all, the next day nothing would be left, everything would go back to the garbage bins.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • People
  • Work
  • Dream

• Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Cool
  • Sexy
  • Symmetry

• If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.

  

  Wilhelm Wien
  • Fortunate
  • Custom
  • Radiation

• I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized, as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

  

  Jeffrey Wright