Morris Chestnut Quotes

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

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• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

  

  John Waters
  • Boy

• You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • Different
  • Person

• Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

  

  Diana Ross
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Friends
  • Grace

• So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Cheat
  • Conceit
  • Nursery

• Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Farm

• You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Girlfriend

• I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• I don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Time
  • God
  • Wish

• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Game

• When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.

  

  Bill Amend
  • Secret
  • Stay Up

• My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Remember
  • Stealing
  • My Name

• It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • You
  • Funny

• I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Stories
  • I Want