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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• 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

• 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

• More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Country
  • Real
  • America

• A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

  

  Ty Burrell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Help

• When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.

  

  Sam Robards
  • People
  • Door
  • Identity

• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • You

• I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Money
  • Free

• The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • Society
  • Science
  • Explore

• 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