Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes

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

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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• 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
  • Say
  • Achieve

• 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

• The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

  

  Edward Burns

• He's a big, athletic player. He has great hands, ... He's a smart player, so he knows how to read defenses and find soft spots. He's the type of player that's able to make plays whenever we need them.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Player
  • Spots
  • Defenses

• Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Dream
  • inspirational
  • Lonely

• I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Challenge

• I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Things
  • Appetite
  • Voracious

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

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.