Paul Walker Quotes

I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.

Paul Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1973 - November 30, 2013

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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

Maurice Sendak

LifeMeBelieveYouKnowShe

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

Sophie Kinsella

NeedTurnUpBooksAdoreThem

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

Studs Terkel

LifeWorkTimeJobWomanWar

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Sonia Sotomayor

HopeYourselfOptimismHappyPeople

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Roger Craig Smith

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I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.

Ronda Rousey

MoneyVotingTakeBecauseCorporate

A lot of theatre people are definitely not conservative, but I don't think liberals get to own the culture.

Mike Gallagher

CulturePeopleTheatreThinkOwn

The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.

Mitchell Baker

PeopleOrganizationFindKnowWay

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

Janice Dickinson

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We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

Johnny Damon

TimeTogetherWorldDownRight Time

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Deb Caletti

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