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Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Friends Minds Realize Enemies

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Walk School Book Nose Used Buried

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

Time School Curious People Me Think

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

Art I Am People Make Even Concerned

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

Anita Pallenberg

Writing Young Want Why Spice Write

I had a great stepfather.

Michael Douglas

Great Stepfather Had

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

Education I Am Looking Career Pretty

Research in this country is going down.

Research Down Country Going

I guess I don't have the cut-throat ambition that some other actresses have. I don't know how good that is for my career, but I know how good that is for me as a person. And to me, that's much more important.

Good Me Ambition Career Person Know

I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Love Friend Father Live Music Truth

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

Everything Port Modern Crushing

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

People Say Human Same Used Regional

At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.

Romesh Gunesekera

Reading Naughty Anything Started

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