Lee Daniels Quotes

I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Missing
  • Police

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Bold
  • Message
  • Forward

• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Day
  • Moment
  • Next

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Different
  • Years
  • Kid

• I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • King

• While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Business
  • Political
  • Giving

• For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Anxiety

• God blesses him who helps his brother.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Brother
  • Him

• I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Giving

• I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food, but mostly we were there for swapping stories.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Food
  • Organization
  • Homeless

• President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.

  

  Lincoln Chafee

• I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

  

  John Boyega
  • School
  • Training
  • Drama

• I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.

  

  Tyler Farr
  • Free
  • Travel

• I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Great