Eriq La Salle (Erik Ki La Salle) Quotes

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

  Dan Rather
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Alligator

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

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Life
  • Change
  • Rest

• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • College
  • Football
  • Religion

• It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Faith
  • Yourself
  • Discipline

• Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Best

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Today
  • Vote
  • Ralph

• There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
  • Job
  • Together
  • Movie

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Friends
  • Wind
  • Rain

• I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Character

• There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Children
  • Kids

• Dad, is it all right to take things from people you don't like?

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • People
  • Dad
  • Right

• New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Writing

• Google's competitors argue that Google designs its search display to promote Google 'products' like Google Maps, Google Places, and Google Shopping, ahead of competitors like MapQuest, Yelp, and product-search sites.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Search
  • Shopping

• They brought the house up-to-date and did it in a beautiful way.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Up
  • House
  • Beautiful

• When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

  

  Chris Rock
  • People
  • Children
  • Crazy

• Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

  

  Eriq La Salle
  • People
  • Art
  • Should