Walter Mosley Quotes
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'Walter Mosley
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
J. B. Smoove -
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek -
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
Adam Mansbach -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
Karan Johar -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
Tavi Gevinson -
It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
Patrick Kane -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
Karen DeCrow -
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
Sam Worthington -
You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
Questlove -
Women just love to shop.
Natalie Massenet
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Ira Glass -
There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.
Jewel Kilcher -
Being evil is easy.
J. K. Simmons -
Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it...nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work.
Aliko Dangote -
People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
Ingvar Kamprad -
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
Walter Mosley