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I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

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• As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

  

  Randall Park
  • Comedy
  • See
  • Stereotypes

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Now
  • Now And Then
  • Bath

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Modern

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Just
  • Hollywood
  • Bowl

• I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Better
  • Television
  • Try

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • May
  • Speak
  • Communication

• I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Research

• I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Country
  • Past
  • Problems

• I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Funny
  • Better
  • Girlfriend

• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Black
  • Right
  • Africa

• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Me

• Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Die

• In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

  

  Anthony Mackie
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Done
  • Book
  • Beginning

• When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • People

• I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Different
  • Singing
  • Journey

• You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

  

  Clarence Douglas Dillon
  • Thoughts

• I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

  

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