Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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• Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

  

  Barbet Schroeder
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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
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• I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

  

  Yuna
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• In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

  

  Carl Karcher
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• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
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• The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

  

  Walter Salles
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  • Done
  • Freedom

• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Change
  • Revolution

• Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Friends
  • Free
  • College

• I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

  

  Sam Smith
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  • God

• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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  • Music
  • Man

• I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

  

  Camila Alves
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  • High

• There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Heart
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  • Risk

• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Me
  • Attention

• Childish and altogether ludicrous is what you yourself are and all philosophers; and if a grown-up man like me spends fifteen minutes with fools of this kind, it is merely a way of passing the time. I've now got more important things to do. Goodbye!

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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• Free, free! what a glorious ring to the word. Free! the bitter heart-struggle was over. Free! the soul could go out to heaven and to God with no chains to clog its flight or pull it down. Free! the earth wore a brighter look, and the very stars seemed to sing with joy. Yes, free! free by the laws of man and the smile of God-and Heaven bless them who made me so!

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • God
  • Soul
  • Free

• Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.

  

  Nancy Johnson
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• It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Brain

• I think that women are uniquely suited to the job of directing, and I've seen it firsthand.

  

  Donna Langley
  • Women
  • Job

• The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Time
  • Free
  • Action