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

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

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Yourself

• There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Competition
  • Without

• Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Time
  • Light
  • Beginning

• Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

  

  Matt Lauer

• I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Advice

• Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Strong
  • Equality

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

  

  Stanley Kirk Burrell