Mike Epps Quotes

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

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• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Want
  • Health

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Church
  • Bible

• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Daily
  • Start
  • Planning

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Everything
  • Without
  • Poison

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Human Rights

• It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Reason

• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Proud
  • Best
  • Training

• I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Air

• The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • You
  • Government
  • Cutting

• I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis.

  

  Mao Zedong

• At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Work
  • Game

• Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • War
  • New

• If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

  

  George P. Shultz

• China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

  

  Mike Epps
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Misconception