Ving Rhames Quotes
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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My favorite project is always the next one.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.
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Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
