Maurice Greene Quotes
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
-
I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
-
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
-
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
-
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
-
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
-
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
-
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
-
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
-
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
-
In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
-
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
-
We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
-
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
-
It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
-
There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
-
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
-
It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
-
It's important in life to celebrate any victory in life.
-
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
-
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
-
Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.
-
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
-
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
