Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

Laurence Fishburne

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Communism

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

  

  Xenophon
  • Great
  • Running
  • Horse

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Me
  • Accept

• I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Big

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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  • Music
  • Think

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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  • School
  • High

• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Most
  • Destructive

• I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Drink
  • Bed

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
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  • Equality

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
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  • Begins
  • Boasting

• I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Problem
  • Need
  • Nation

• Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Real

• Hell is paved with good intentions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• You know, Republicans went to Washington to change the culture, to change the city. Instead, they became changed by Washington. Now, it doesn't do any good for us to look backwards or to fight amongst ourselves. We need to be looking forward.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Good
  • Culture
  • City

• There are just some things that you can't deny.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Deny

• I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
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