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Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Change You Go Want Little Big

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

Rain Identity Language Speech Skies

I'm a human just like anyone else, and I understand that, so at the end of the day, you've got to stay humble.

Humble Day End Of The Day End You

Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.

Sad Lonely You Bad Feeling Emotions

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Teacher Know Important Teach Most

Respect the person you're with. My philosophy is, if I'm not happier when I'm with you, then there's no reason for me to be with you. I'm happy on my own.

Respect Happy Me Philosophy You Own

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

Good Mind Me Strong Body Right

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

Time Day Yourself People Saying You

That's what you do with the worst day ever: you flip it on its back.

Day You Back Worst Flip Ever

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.

Sellapan Ramanathan

Hope Time Training Collaboration You

I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why 'Mildred Pierce' is like noir without any real crime.

Crime Why Classic Real Without Away

This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.

Job Game End Long You Play

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Richard Holbrooke

Experience War World Generation

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