Melvin Van Peebles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
-
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
-
All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
-
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
-
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
-
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
-
You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
-
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
-
I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
-
I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
-
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
-
It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
-
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
-
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
-
Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
-
I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.
-
I shared my shelter, a ninth share in Arthur's valour. I broke a hundred forts. I slew a hundred stewards. I bestowed a hundred mantles. I cut off a hundred heads. I gave to an old chief very great swords of protection.
-
A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
-
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
-
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
-
I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.
-
In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.
-
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
-
I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.
