Lee Daniels Quotes

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

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• A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

  

  Gary Speed
  • People
  • Player
  • Golf

• I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Pretty
  • Thought
  • Better

• In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Taxes
  • How
  • Fees

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Technology
  • Compassion

• The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Black
  • Band
  • Rock

• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Strong
  • Community

• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• 'There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one.'

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Music
  • Words

• I woke last night to the sound of thunder,'How far off,' I sat and wondered.Started hummin' a song from 1962.Ain't it funny how the night moves,When you just don't seem to have as much to lose.Strange how the night moves, with autumn closin' in.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Song
  • Night
  • Funny

• He's a serious mister Shake his hand and he'll twist your arm. With Monopoly money We'll be buying the funny farm. So I'll do flips, and get paid in chips From a diamond as big as the Ritz - Then I'm calling it quits.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Hand

• 'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Today

• Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Society

• Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • History
  • Connection

• If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Emotional

• Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Good
  • Live
  • Money

• If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Player
  • Garden
  • Dvds

• I've never been jealous of any girl in my life, but while shooting for 'Remo,' I was 'really jealous' of Sivakarthikeyan. The day I saw him in his pretty nurse look, I knew that he's going to steal the show.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.

  

  James Lind
  • Pretty
  • Rest
  • Sick

• The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Experience
  • Nurse
  • Hath

• Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Nurse