Jeffrey Wright Quotes
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.Jeffrey Wright
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
Carles Puigdemont -
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
Karl Jaspers -
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
Rand Paul -
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine -
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
Canelo Alvarez -
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis -
Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry -
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci -
I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.
Andy Dick -
I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
Asia Argento -
The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
J. D. Hayworth -
I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.
Cherie Blair -
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
Jeffrey Wright