Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

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• Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • American
  • Eating

• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • You
  • Life Is A

• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Yourself

• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • God
  • Actor

• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Food
  • Eat

• I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Music
  • Happy

• I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.

  

  Clare B. Dunkle
  • Night
  • Running
  • Water

• Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Person

• The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Fear
  • Purpose
  • Failure

• I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Sex
  • Body
  • Feels

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
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