Richard Roundtree Quotes

There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.

Richard Roundtree

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1942

Topics

GodNobodyMoreKidBananaOpposite

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

Matt Gonzalez

PeopleMeThinkKnowStreetRun

I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

John Robinson

PeopleThinkWeekBackWillBring

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Robert E. Lee

ManFaceYouBackFindDangerous

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

Roz Chast

HateTogetherParentsMeDoingBorn

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

ManSufferingWhoHeFears

I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

Lloyd Dorfman

BusinessHobbyBoringActuallyBloke

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Josiah Royce

KnowledgeSpeakPresentYouImage

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

Christopher Walken

LoveFatherYouPieNeverBoston

The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

Annette Curtis Klause

TruthChallengeParentsWritingWant

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

Arthur Miller

TalkingNitrogenLot

Imagination is the air of mind.

Philip James Bailey

ImaginationMindAir

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

Scott Aukerman

UniverseKnowAverageYourComedian

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