Richard Roundtree Quotes

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Richard Roundtree

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

Matt Taibbi

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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

Matthew Desmond

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Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

Jeff Bridges

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My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.

Amruta Khanvilkar

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Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Steven Biko

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We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.

Ron DeSantis

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I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago.

Ronda Rousey

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Teens are strange and magical.

Mary H.K. Choi

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I just want to go out there and do my best. You can't argue with your best.

Michelle Carter

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Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it's completely different. We don't have any starting point; we don't have an end point. We don't have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.

Lois Greenfield

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Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

Bokeem Woodbine

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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Swoosie Kurtz

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