Mike Colter Quotes

When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that whole part of town just swell. People walked the streets, but it wasn't a riot - it wasn't mayhem. It was a unified feeling of euphoria.

Mike Colter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 26, 1976

Topics

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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Jim Morrison

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Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

John C. Reilly

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The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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When the rich kids got together, the most we ever did was cross against a red light.

Michael Cimino

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Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

Stephen Kinzer

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If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.

Tony Goldwyn

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I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.

Missy Elliott

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I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

Jay-Z

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God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

Dolly Parton

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I am from Des Moines, Iowa - not even the city but out in the country. I don't have a lot of trappings, I think, in my personality. I'm just a simple person with a silly bone.

Cloris Leachman

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If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.

Brian Kobilka

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The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.

Brie Larson

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