O'Shea Jackson, Jr. Quotes

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

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• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Different
  • Home

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Great
  • Fashion
  • Forward

• Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Design
  • Safety
  • Safe

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Violence
  • Feel

• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Important
  • Writing

• When you have a lot of women in our state that do wear the hijab, we should be able to see that everywhere.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Women
  • You
  • See

• My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Devoted

• That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Kitchen

• If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Fall
  • Acting
  • Back

• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Christian
  • Forgiveness
  • Back

• There's only so much you can control in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • You
  • Control

• Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction

• The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.

  

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart

• Muslims must realize and admit the wrongs perpetrated under the Islamic rule.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Islamic

• So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Wish
  • Sacrifice

• I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Water

• …a fetid cabaret with a beer-bar, two houses of ill-fame disguised as coffee-shops…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Coffee
  • Beer

• Brave plays the long game on behalf of users first, and also publishers, to win a better Web with fast, safe browsing, anonymous micropayments, and user control over data.

  

  Brendan Eich
  • Long
  • Game
  • Control

• As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.