Mos Def Quotes

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

Mos Def

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PeopleCrazyBetterDebateShyRude

I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.

Jeremy Irons

CharacterMyselfManResearchActor

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Maya Angelou

PeopleDoorDownNeighborKnowRace

If you do not train hard you will never fulfill your potential.

Maurice Greene

PotentialYouTrainWillNeverHard

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Jeanne Calment

LifeParentsMeThreadExcuseTight

I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

John Travolta

PeopleTalkingGoKnowFameWay

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

Mindy Kaling

PeopleLovedSomeoneAlwaysRomance

Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.

Jason Fried

PeopleSmallSellingTwoTakeKinds

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

Jose Antonio Vargas

FamilyHomeBlessedAmericanAmerica

The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now.

Dhanush

WorldNowEveryoneInterestedIndian

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.

Ari Fleischer

HealthPeopleCareInsuranceWay

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

Alice Munro

LifeWritingMy LifePersonalBeen

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Susan George

WorkTimeFoodFaceYearEgg

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