Melvin Van Peebles Quotes
Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
Melvin Van Peebles
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry
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I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg
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It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
Vera Wang
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
Edmund White
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
Vaclav Havel
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
Nadia Comaneci
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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
Pat Gillick
