Mick Jagger Quotes
I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
-
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
-
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
-
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
-
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
-
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
-
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
-
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
-
Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
-
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
-
Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
-
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
-
I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
-
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
-
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
-
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
-
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
-
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
-
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.
-
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
-
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
-
I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.
