Laz Alonso Quotes

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

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• Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

  

  Major Owens
  • Fall
  • Price
  • Oil

• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Literature

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Kind
  • Fashion

• You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Water
  • Falling

• Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Certain

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Men
  • Family

• It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Life
  • Broken

• No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

  

  Frank Pittman
  • Parents
  • Powerful

• I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People

• When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • Life
  • Home
  • Movie

• I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Up
  • Done
  • Strong

• I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style