Big L (Lamont Coleman) Quotes

Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'

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• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Passion

• The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Real
  • Truth

• It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.

  

  Jenn Suhr
  • Up
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

  

  Eli Wallach
  • Movie

• I don't think I could write a straight drama.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • Drama

• What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

  

  Brad Sherman
  • Science
  • Earth

• If your child really loves art, get them some good brushes. Get good material and make them feel that what they do is important.

  

  Denise Fleming
  • Good
  • Important
  • Art

• The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

  

  Alan Price
  • Time
  • Real
  • Together

• My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • Words

• We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal
  • Long
  • Hurt

• We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Country
  • America
  • Poverty

• I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Up
  • True
  • Singing

• (The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to to protect him. They, I believe, will spout this racist line if some of their colleagues up here aren't doing it aggressively enough. There is going to be a real desperation.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Failure
  • Mainstream Media
  • Black President

• My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.

  

  Daniel Buren
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Art
  • Architecture

• If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Democracy
  • Information
  • Library

• We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.

  

  Nico Hulkenberg
  • Race
  • Second
  • Gaps

• Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'

  

  Big L
  • Crowbar
  • Breakin