Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

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• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • High
  • Energy
  • Cost

• I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Hollywood

• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Work
  • Had
  • Psychiatrist

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reach
  • Sweetness
  • Peak

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Air
  • Story
  • Tell

• I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Customer

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• I would love to fight my clone.

  

  Anderson Silva

• The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People
  • Financial
  • Wedding

• Our entire lives, we're inundated with media and messaging that tells us that to be incarcerated is to be criminal and to be criminal is to be a bad person.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Bad

• I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Sad

• I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
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