Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

John Abizaid

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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

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Our vision is to allow users to search for content like movies, music, and songs with your voice or using gestures on the Kinect and sync that with your TV screen, phone, PC, or any other device.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

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The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Michael Caine

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The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

John Polkinghorne

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I'm glad many Jews attend Knick games.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

Amitabh Bachchan

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I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

Steve Tisch

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Bad things can happen to you, but it doesn't mean you have to have regrets. It's all about what you do with it.

Trixie Mattel

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If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

Robbie Fowler

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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Christopher Lasch

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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

Clarence Day

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