Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes

One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Me
  • Everyone

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Movie
  • House
  • Singing

• I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Happy
  • First

• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • God
  • Liberal
  • Suggestions

• Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Technology

• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • More

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Christian

• As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Know
  • Water

• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • History
  • Pretty

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nature
  • Justice

• I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Government
  • Water
  • Special

• I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Children
  • Training
  • Cameras

• I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Why
  • Law

• I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.

  

  Marisa Tomei

• One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.