Al Sharpton Quotes

'What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?'

Al Sharpton

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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Kid

• Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Know
  • Years

• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  

  Walter Murch
  • View
  • Point Of View
  • Puzzle

• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Career
  • Worry

• Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Up
  • Horrible
  • Delhi

• For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

  

  Larry Page
  • Important
  • Security
  • Privacy

• I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Temper
  • Descendants
  • Hungarian

• In my head, I believed even though I am an actor, there was no need to dance. That's not me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Dance
  • Actor

• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Worth
  • Paper
  • Contract

• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  

  Sallust
  • May
  • Nature
  • Law

• Olympics is everyone's dream.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Dream
  • Everyone
  • Olympics

• Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion He asked me out, therefore he pays is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Rejection

• I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Culture

• We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

  

  Lionel Trilling

• If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Care

• I want to say that I can be Moroccan and speak about someone without speaking about his nationality. Because, you know, I have the feeling that when you come from Morocco, when you come from Afghanistan, when you come from Africa, Occidental people always wait for you to write a novel about identity.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Identity

• If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Political
  • Democracy

• There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Good
  • May

• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

  

  John Ciardi

• 'What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?'

  

  Al Sharpton