Anthony Mackie Quotes

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

Anthony Mackie

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• The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Long
  • City
  • Football

• I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Being

• I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Age
  • Like
  • Years

• I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Think
  • Try
  • Moderation

• Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Two

• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Books

• Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Woman

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Real
  • Fact
  • Invention

• I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Game
  • Now
  • Resistance

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Support
  • Drunk
  • Statistics

• I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Strong

• Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • God
  • Free
  • Broken

• Qui finem quaeris amoris,Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.

  

  Ovid
  • Age

• We want to make sure that the kind of ballpark we agreed upon will be built, that it can be paid for as we have agreed, that the team be able to exercise adequate control over the ballpark site, that we understand the limits of the legislative power to further rewrite contracts we enter into and that the balance of burdens and benefits agreed to by us in mediation is readdressed, since it has been seriously disrupted by the legislation.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Control
  • Balance
  • Exercise

• I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

  

  Anthony Mackie