Damon Wayans Quotes

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

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• History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Important
  • Long

• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health care
  • Heroes
  • Veterans

• It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Help
  • Desire
  • Always

• There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Love
  • Shoes
  • Fetishist

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • History
  • Know

• If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Glory

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Beginning
  • New
  • Trends

• Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Faith

• I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.

  

  Liane Balaban
  • Job
  • Waiting

• Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Help

• If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'

  

  Christine Woods
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Government
  • Greek
  • Debate

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old