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

• The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Personal
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• 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

• I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Simple
  • Needs
  • Cards

• I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

  

  Muqtada al Sadr
  • Burned
  • Demonstration
  • Resorts

• Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Stories
  • I Want