Laurence Fishburne Quotes

Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

Laurence Fishburne

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• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • American
  • Man

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Partner

• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Period
  • Painting

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Up
  • Home
  • Game

• I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Think

• Power to the peaceful.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Power
  • Peaceful

• The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Book
  • My Life

• The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Sun
  • Flower
  • Most

• It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.

  

  Basil Bunting

• The vast majority of individuals with Asperger Syndrome need help - without that help they won't be able to do very well. The individuals that I know have to overcome a great deal of difficulty to maximize their potential and get the things in life they deserve.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Help

• Are human beings innately aggressive? ...The answer to it is yes. ...Only by redefining the words 'innateness' and 'aggression' to the point of uselessness might we correctly say that human aggressiveness is not innate.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Words

• Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Death
  • Sympathy

• Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Time
  • Peace

• It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Crazy

• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Art

• American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the 'American Trinity': 'Liberty,' 'In God We Trust,' and 'E Pluribus Unum' ('Out of Many, One'), the three values that appear on all American coins.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • God
  • American
  • Trust

• The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

  

  James St. James
  • True
  • Nature
  • Evil

• We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Violence
  • Economic
  • Relation

• Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

  

  William Kennedy
  • Sin
  • Streets
  • Lit

• Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Children
  • Player
  • Sin

• Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

  

  Laurence Fishburne