Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Like most girls, I suffered from pimples, too. I tried dozens of treatments but was never satisfied with any.

Amy Jackson

NeverSatisfiedLikeMostTriedAny

I am a self-made brat.

Steve Wynn

I AmSelf-MadeBratAm

There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable.

Tony Fadell

YouKnowFirstNeedHow FarOut

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Robert E. Lee

HumbleChristianTryChiefConcern

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Robert Frost

WritingPressureTalkingHouseFirst

I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress.

Ruby Rose

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As a black man in America, I have lived the truth.

Ron Stallworth

TruthManBlackAmericaLived

I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.

Mike McCready

HeartSadnessMadHoldSeasonVery

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

Joshua Bell

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Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Dick Clark

LifeMusicYourSoundtrack

Information-sharing is elementary to good intelligence work.

Dianne Feinstein

WorkGoodIntelligenceElementary

I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.

Doug Baldwin

FootballYouSayHonestTo Be Honest

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