Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

Melvin Van Peebles

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Home
  • Serious
  • Kid

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Knowledge
  • Sometimes
  • Need

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 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
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Want

• 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
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Impossible
  • Decisions

• 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
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Religious

• 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
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Find

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• 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
  • Life
  • Law
  • Universe

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Should

• Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Marketing
  • Hear
  • Jam

• We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Travel
  • Daily
  • Charity

• It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Change
  • Technology

• When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • America
  • Political

• When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Up
  • Growing

• I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.

  

  Cush Jumbo
  • Up
  • She
  • Dad

• Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Hollywood