Michael Rapaport Quotes

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Michael Rapaport

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Rules
  • Politeness

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Women
  • Sad

• My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Think
  • You
  • Stop

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Violence
  • Social Media

• When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Action
  • Sleep
  • Information

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • People
  • Happy
  • Dream

• We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • War
  • Path

• Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Best

• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Potato

• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Doing

• My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• If you put the collections together, whether it's Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they're never called that. They're always called 'sportswear' or 'high-end' or 'luxury.' I feel like I'm tossed into that streetwear category so that I don't exist in this space.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Together
  • High
  • Space

• And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Action

• All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Good
  • Music
  • House

• What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • America
  • Economy
  • Industry

• Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Sports
  • Hip Hop
  • Mentality