Muddy Waters Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
-
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
-
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
-
Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
-
Language does not make one an elite.
-
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
-
What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
-
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
-
I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
-
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
-
Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
-
The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
-
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
-
Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
-
There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
-
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
-
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
-
I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.
-
I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
-
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
-
I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.
-
We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.
-
Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
