Omari Hardwick Quotes

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Day

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Intelligent
  • Software

• I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Why
  • Black

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
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  • Experience
  • Power

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evil
  • Spirit
  • Europe

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
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• I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • School
  • High
  • Movies

• The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Career
  • Very
  • Short

• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Like
  • Golf
  • Young

• I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Air

• In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wish
  • Model
  • Assume

• Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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  • New York