Stanley Kirk Burrell (MC Hammer) Quotes

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

Stanley Kirk Burrell

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• You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Australia
  • Everywhere

• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Reality
  • Blind
  • Patriotism

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Values

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Like
  • Market

• I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Done
  • Truth

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • History
  • Study
  • Questions

• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Friend
  • Purpose
  • Criticism

• I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Travel

• A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Short

• We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Work
  • American
  • Culture

• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Washington
  • Teeth
  • Edge

• Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Change
  • Famous
  • Selling

• The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Yourself

• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Control
  • Beginning

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• Hey,” Shane said from the other side of the bars. “Trade you cigarettes for a chocolate bar.” Funny,” Eve said. She was almost back to her old unGothed self again, though there were still red splotches on her cheeks and around her eyes. “How come you’re always behind bars, troublemaker?” Look who’s talking. I didn’t try to outrun the cops in a hearse.” That hearse had horsepower.” Eve got that moony look in her eyes again. “I love that hearse.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Funny
  • Eyes

• I have to keep reminding my students, asking them, "What is your experience of listening to this? Don't tell me about the notes you see on the page, tell me about what you hear.

  

  James Tenney
  • Experience
  • Students
  • Notes

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

  

  Stanley Kirk Burrell