Alonzo Bodden Quotes

I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

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• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Smart

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Alone

• I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interviews

• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • Angels

• My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Art
  • Night
  • Brother

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• I just love to see people having a good time.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • You
  • Shoes

• I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Money
  • Disrespect
  • Throw

• The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • People
  • Fire

• The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Theatre

• I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it's consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• 'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Work
  • Control
  • Temptation

• The acceptance of 'Quantico' so far has been really great. At the moment, I'm just straddling two continents far away from each other, with very active careers in both!

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Great
  • Acceptance

• I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

  

  Alonzo Bodden
  • Work
  • Honest
  • Comic