Michael Clarke Duncan Quotes

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

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• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Care

• Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • House
  • Alone
  • Understand

• I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Find
  • Look
  • Nostalgia

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

• The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • History
  • Tell

• The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Hell

• My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Me

• I'm young but I'm not stupid.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Stupid
  • Young

• It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Me
  • Kiss
  • Tell

• When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Real
  • You

• When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Music
  • Love
  • Book

• As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

  

  P. Sathasivam
  • Work
  • Law
  • Government

• Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Opportunity
  • Film
  • Actor

• I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Up
  • Work
  • Coffee

• I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Sometimes
  • Hands
  • Happen

• When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

  

  Michael Clarke Duncan
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Happen