Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes

I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Doubt
  • Said
  • Try

• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Think
  • Changing
  • Satisfied

• Kids hate anyone who is different.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Hate

• I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Form
  • Discrimination
  • Favor

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

  Gail Devers
  • Believe
  • True
  • Proud

• I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • Achieve
  • Say

• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Freedom
  • Enjoy
  • Page

• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • World
  • America
  • You

• People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Real
  • She
  • Question

• Die Verehrung mächtiger unsichtbarer Wesen, welche dem hülflosen Menschen durch die natürliche, auf dem Bewusstsein seines Unvermögens gegründete Furcht abgenöthigt wurde, …

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Reality

• It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

  

  Mark Messier

• As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Why
  • Me
  • Question

• If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Up
  • Music
  • Nice

• Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Live
  • Money

• When I was younger, I was relying on those young-girl genetics. I wasn't watching what I was eating or looking at nutrition. Now I'm paying attention, and my body is leaner. I'm healthier. I'm eating better. I'm just in better shape.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Girl
  • Attention

• I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Death

• I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.