Adrian Younge Quotes

I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nature
  • Enjoy
  • Sunshine

• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Door

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Positive

• Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Others

• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Hope
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Effort

• I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Experience

• Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)

  

  Dave Sim

• I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Black
  • Popular
  • Pink

• I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • History
  • Guy
  • Black