Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Baby
  • Born
  • Texas

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Know
  • Respect

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• The most important thing is to not waste your money.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Important
  • Money
  • Waste

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Down
  • Heroes
  • Resistance

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Violence

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Wine
  • Nothing

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Eating

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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  • Period
  • Creativity

• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Never

• When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Women
  • Job
  • Power

• I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

  

  Anna May Wong
  • May
  • Star

• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Time