Big L (Lamont Coleman) Quotes

Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Red
  • Early
  • Roses

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Great

• The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Listening

• How averse human beings were ever to admit ignorance!

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Ignorance

• The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

  

  Adam Smith
  • High
  • Road
  • Safety

• The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

  

  Chester A. Arthur
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Attention

• I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Good

• Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Time
  • Rest

• We can go years without making a picture, and that's fine.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Picture

• Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

  

  Ben Marcus

• Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • People
  • Nice
  • Fashion

• I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Church

• For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • House
  • Church
  • Dirty

• Through an image, people are able to communicate how they're feeling, making even the most invisible struggles more visible to friends and family.

  

  Marne Levine
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I can't say I have a lucky charm, but I do wear a 3/4-zip U.S.A. jacket I wear to every event. I got it from Nike, and it was from the 2012 Olympic Games.

  

  Max Aaron

• I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Up
  • Light
  • Picture

• Im known for snatchin' purses and bombin' churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose

  

  Big L
  • Church
  • Purpose
  • Accidents