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Spike Lee Quotes

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1957

Topics

Education Children Art College Class

I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.

Joe Morgan

Home Win Proud Think Vote Little

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Jessamyn West

Family Alone Writing Society Friends

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Anita Brookner

Writing Start Learn You Know Never

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Johnny Carson

Freedom Money You Only Worrying

For a writer, working in television is an incredibly rewarding medium. You're in charge of all aspects of production and get to see your vision come to life every week.

Stephanie Savage

Life Vision Week You Television See

Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26 percent around the world. According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and an estimated 660,000 deaths.

Tom Frieden

Health Organization World Million

I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

Jonathan Evison

Believe You Know Want Try Need

If you're going to make as much money as you are, when you're fighting someone else, that's the one thing I always tell people is I would never turn down the truly rightful No. 1 contender in my division, because the UFC can actually strip you. They can say, 'You're not going to fight the No. 1 contender. We can strip you.'

Demetrious Johnson

Money Fight People Fighting Someone

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

Donovan

Write Searching Always Different

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Daymond John

Business Decisions Bad First Made

On my tour, either they're coming to see me, or they're not.

Cole Swindell

Me See Coming Tour Either

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt

Life Home My Life If I Could Whole