Damon Wayans Quotes

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Children
  • Together
  • Food

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Up
  • Know
  • Like

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Company

• You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Yourself
  • Fight
  • Face

• I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Today
  • Girl

• Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Work
  • Family
  • Taken

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Think
  • Control
  • Person

• We feel and know that we are eternal.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Eternal

• Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Character
  • Action
  • Discipline

• It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some guy in a dashiki said, 'Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it's you.'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • God
  • Guy
  • Thought

• The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • She
  • Truth
  • Said

• My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Said