Tommy Davidson Quotes

New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

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• After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Man
  • Opinion

• America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Better
  • Well

• We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Country
  • Mean
  • United States

• You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time. But we must presume that in some other way or aspect it can be differentiated into parts. Only here and there does it arise to the level of consciousness, but from such islands proceeds all knowledge. The latter includes our knowledge of the physical world.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Political
  • Chinese

• The Middle East is the tinder box of the world, and to be able to remove a nuclear threat of any kind out of Iran, that would have been a big deal, very positive step forward.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • World
  • Positive

• I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.

  

  Bill Pullman

• A good night in is a series of documentaries.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Good
  • Night

• When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  

  David Eddings
  • Happy

• I've never been able to lift my own weight, and the day when you have that capacity, it's pretty empowering!

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Pretty
  • Empowering

• Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Up
  • Trying

• It's so nice to know that there are other ways to treat your animal than just giving up on them.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Nice

• Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Good

• I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Point

• American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • American
  • History
  • Beautiful

• We want Trump to be hugely successful, so we don’t want to handle a bill that’s going to fail in a few years, Trump ran on price-discovery and competition across state lines, getting the price down - the price is going up by 20 percent and the bill we are getting ready to vote on, once again, goes back and does too much emphasis on the coverage aspect

  

  Dave Brat
  • Up
  • Trump
  • Competition

• The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Important

• Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • Up
  • Long
  • Job

• New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.

  

  Tommy Davidson