Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

Melvin Van Peebles

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
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• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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• Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Life
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• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
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• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

  

  Ovid
  • Women
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• I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
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• It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  

  Albert Finney
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• Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Poetry
  • Flying
  • Sunday

• We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Time
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• The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
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• I was a little confused as a kid because I grew up with my mom, and my mom is black. So, I was cultured in a very 'black' way. But when I go to school, I'm getting called 'white.' They would look at me, and they would curse me out. I didn't understand. I just knew I saw people of all different shades, and I was light. Now, I'm in a much bigger world.

  

  Rihanna
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• My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Different
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• I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Different
  • Company
  • Boys