Clifton Collins, Jr. Quotes

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Time
  • Day
  • Hair

• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Christmas

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
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  • Young

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
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  • Clever
  • Convince

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
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  • Worthlessness

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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  • Sometimes
  • Never

• I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Kind
  • Facts
  • Harder

• Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Good
  • War
  • Crazy

• I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Book
  • College

• And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

  

  David Bowie
  • World
  • Children
  • Immune

• I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

  

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