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Mr. T Quotes

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God... I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

Mr. T

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 21, 1952

Topics

Father God Talk Being Disciples

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

John Burnside

Car Book Find First Destroy Tried

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

Jerry Lewis

Ego Comedy Nothing

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

Jenni Rivera

Father Home Music Growing Up Loved

Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.

John Henrik Clarke

King People Thought Doubt Islam

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Anais Nin

Say Role Writer Unable

By age 19, I was married to a high-profile, much older musician and was mother to a baby girl. Since then, I've been divorced, been a cheater, been cheated on, gotten happily remarried, and raised a couple of great kids.

Amanda de Cadenet

Mother Girl Age Great Baby Kids

I can, therefore I am.

Simone Weil

Motivational I Am I Can Am Therefore

The question people ask me all the time is, 'How was it playing a gay character? How was it pretending to love a man?' And I don't mean to be abrasive, but that's just the stupidest question in the world to me. To assume there is a difference is ignorance. You're born a certain way. I was born loving women. I could have been born loving men.

Trevante Rhodes

Love Women Character Time Ignorance

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

Robert Fisk

War Lose Lost Will Enemies Israel

I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know.

Rod Steiger

Good Time Story Think Thought You

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Rudyard Kipling

Love Patience Man Heaven Us Grant

I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.

Johnny Depp

Think Name Famous Uncomfortable You