Usher Quotes

When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Film
  • Favorite
  • Finale

• I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • Think
  • Day

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Something
  • Soothing
  • Hum

• In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Up
  • Pride
  • Judge

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Real
  • Savings

• It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Listening
  • More
  • Tells

• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Principle

• Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Together
  • Food

• St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • Soul

• It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Listen
  • Clever

• If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Wind

• Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

  

  Jerome Charyn
  • Art
  • Dance

• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Women
  • Black
  • Strong

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes