Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. But they had done something very dangerous: They had given me encouragement.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1932

Topics

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My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

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A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Michael Pena

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I'm kind of a subtle person.

Lizz Wright

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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

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Brave browsers block everything: initial signaling/analytics scripts that start the programmatic advertising 'dirty pipe', impression-tracking pixels, and ad-click confirmation signals.

Brendan Eich

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It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

Clarence Clemons

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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

Bonnie Blair

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I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

Ansel Elgort

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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

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I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

Nicole Richie

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I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

Richard Dawkins

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Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.

Mark Goulston

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