Lee Daniels Quotes

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

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• I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Paper
  • Shower

• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Fat

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• You can observe a lot by watching.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Watching

• We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Why
  • Try
  • Learned

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

  

  Lyman Trumbull
  • Great
  • May
  • Respect

• Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

  

  Dennis Brown
  • Rumors

• Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wisdom
  • Bill
  • Applause

• In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • World

• I had a theater that was right across the street from me, and I would just go there after school and just hang out and watch... and everything seemed calmer there and nicer there and warmer there.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • School

• I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe