Byron Allen Quotes
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
Quotes to Explore
-
People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
-
The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
-
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
-
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
-
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
-
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
-
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
-
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
-
Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
-
I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
-
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
-
My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
-
I grew up in New York.
-
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
-
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
-
Acting's boring.
-
When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
-
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
-
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
-
People have good and bad days.
-
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
-
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
