Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

Jim Rash

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A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

Jens Lekman

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When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema.

Andrew Haigh

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As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

Robert Kiyosaki

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There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

Matt Haig

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I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?

Andy Mineo

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It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.

Rory Bremner

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I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam: I'm a college graduate. I'm African American, and I'm gay. I'm comfortable in my skin.

Michael Sam

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There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down at the same time.

Mike McCready

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When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

Michaela Coel

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I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

Mindy Kaling

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In 10th grade, I was kicking it with the seniors. I introduced myself, and they were like, 'Yeah, Demetrius is cool, but we're gonna call you Pac.' That was it! It could be worse!

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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