Richard Roundtree Quotes

I don't know if it's a racial thing or not, but it's hard for the Roundtrees to talk about health issues. People have to get over all that stuff.

Richard Roundtree

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

Robert Harris

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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

John Shelton Reed

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No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

Stephen Kinzer

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When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

Tom Ford

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When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

Roger Goodell

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The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

Michael Trucco

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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.

Desiderius Erasmus

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I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.

Denise Morrison

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In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

Chris O'Dowd

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I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

Brendan Gleeson

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Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

Bob Geldof

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