Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The women here are the ones that hold the families together. So if my mom were to be unhappy with me, in a way, it would be like I would have lost my entire family.

Jesmyn Ward

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As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

Andy Grammer

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Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

Simon Sinek

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Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.

Tom Holland

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One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Louis Navellier

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Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.

Jasmila Zbanic

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When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

Doug Liman

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I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid.

Colin Trevorrow

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Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Alice Hoffman

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There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.

William Stone

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Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

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