Michael Clarke Duncan Quotes

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

Michael Clarke Duncan

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• There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Small
  • Cuba

• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I just think people should be able to express themselves.

  

  Vince Carter
  • People
  • Think
  • Express

• There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Artist

• But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Love
  • Think
  • Death

• My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Father
  • Party

• My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Career
  • Way
  • Cooking

• We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Guys
  • Picked
  • Pull Off

• Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Women
  • Book
  • American

• It's basically the same, just darker.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Darker

• Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Quality
  • motivation
  • Performance

• Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Funny

• You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible

  

  Kai Greene
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Can Do

• All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

  

  Don McLean
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Song

• No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Earth
  • Travel
  • Path

• I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you.' 'Wow, they must look just awful on you then.' I smiled back.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Looks
  • Doors
  • Awful

• Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Dream
  • Passion

• I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.

  

  Freddie Ljungberg
  • Stubborn
  • Few
  • Disciplined

• When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Power
  • War
  • Political

• I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

  

  Michael Clarke Duncan
  • Looks
  • Lying