Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.'

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WalkPeopleMeFeelDownI Can

There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

Joe Penny

PresentOutWhoStuffLotArena

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Spalding Gray

MotherAgeMyselfWaitingMeShe

Two Klansmen were working for NORAD monitoring U.S. air space for missile attacks. I contacted the Pentagon, and the next day, they were reassigned to a posting near the North Pole.

Ron Stallworth

DaySpaceTwoAirNextWorking

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.

Mary J. Blige

HistoryStruggleBelieveGeneration

Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

Louis Theroux

TrustStrugglePeopleWinWorld

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.

Liz Goldwyn

CultureCoolClothesYouDresses

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Jay Inslee

GoalsCarEfficiencyBackImprove

I've really tried everything in my power to get my life together.

Jon Jones

LifePowerTogetherMy LifeGet

People only have so much attention.

Demetri Martin

PeopleAttentionOnlyMuch

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

Chris Hardwick

CultureNowBigPop CulturePop

I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.

Bryan Fuller

LoveSchoolRedHigh SchoolBack

I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.

Pink

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