Courtney B. Vance Quotes

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.

Courtney B. Vance

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1960

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What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

Andrea Bocelli

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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

Robert Smith

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Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

Stephen Hawking

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Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Robert Cecil

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We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions spares our planet from the well-documented degradation that we are witnessing on a global basis.

Dick Durbin

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Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Denis Waitley

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I'm not a normal person with normal tastebuds, so I'll save you all from cringing/dissing on my late night flavour pairings, but I will say when I was a kid, with little to no access to anything but my mother's pantry, I'd dip everything in ranch dressing, Miracle Whip, katsup, barbecue sauce, honey, mustard, etc.

Christina Tosi

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The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

Claude C. Hopkins

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My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Anthony Minghella

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Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well.

Annette Bening

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I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Persis Khambatta

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