Paul Mooney Quotes

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

Paul Mooney

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SuccessWorldBlackSelfBattle

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

John Joly

GreatUniverseResultsMinuteForces

There is nothing like visiting a facility to get a sense of how companies work.

Steve Jurvetson

WorkNothingSenseGetLikeHow

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

Tony La Russa

WorkTeamGoingSomedayAgain

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Tom Selleck

BusinessDaySchoolGuiltGoThree

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Robert Wilson

ThoughtAlwaysThemeThroughRather

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

MeBuildingBodyGlassWillSee

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.

Lola Kirke

FamilyAmericanOnlyAccent

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Dodie Smith

LuxuryNothingContemplationSeems

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Doris Lessing

FreeLibraryPoliticalYouTell

Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.

Bob Buckhorn

HappyBeing HappyChoiceSafeTake

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

ASAP Rocky

GoodMusicArtPeopleWorldFeel

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

LifeMusicImaginationSoulMind

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