Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

Paul Mooney

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• Blackness

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• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Question
  • Effect
  • Often

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Trust

• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Country
  • Strong

• I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Work
  • Great
  • Actors

• One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Good
  • Day
  • Practice

• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • War
  • Cause
  • Principal

• The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • World
  • Country
  • City

• I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time
  • Period
  • Independent

• I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Time
  • High

• My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

• The usual practice just isn't enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and have a lower impact on my body.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Training

• Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Done

• Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Work
  • Art
  • Walking

• 'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Help
  • Unique

• My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Up
  • Together
  • Humanity

• Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Money
  • Future

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Blackness