Richard Roundtree Quotes

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Richard Roundtree

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Love
  • Boat
  • I Can

• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Die
  • City

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • World
  • Knows
  • Robert W. Chambers

• Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • School
  • Practice

• American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • American
  • Law

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

  

  Gallagher
  • American
  • City
  • Year

• If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Think
  • Healthy

• You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Grow

• I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Job

• We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Competition

• The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Me
  • Said
  • More

• I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Real
  • Happy

• I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

  

  Isabelle Fuhrman
  • Mom
  • Style
  • Influence

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

  

  Richard Roundtree
  • Star
  • Film
  • Working