Morris Chestnut Quotes

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...

Morris Chestnut

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• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Body

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Baby
  • Look
  • Chocolate

• The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Change
  • Technology

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Successful
  • Internet

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
  • Modern
  • Fairness

• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Thoughts
  • Chaos
  • Stand

• Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • High
  • Way
  • Bar

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Why
  • Fly
  • Gymnastics

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Guilty
  • Will

• Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Business
  • Building

• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Fun
  • Find
  • Having Fun

• Public health and safety are my highest priorities.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Health
  • Safety
  • Priorities

• I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Play
  • Wind
  • Los Angeles

• I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Up

• I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • World
  • Couple

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Business
  • Football
  • Study

• I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Family

• My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Family
  • Football
  • Christmas