Cenk Uygur Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
-
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
-
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
-
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
-
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
-
My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
-
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
-
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
-
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
-
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
-
Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
-
DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
-
Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
-
A man in debt is so far a slave.
-
We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
-
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
-
As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
-
There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.
-
When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
-
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
-
'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
-
But these thoughts broke apart in his head and were replaced by strange fragments: This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air.
-
If I get hungry, I get cranky on air.
