Lee Daniels Quotes

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

Lee Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 24, 1959

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Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

Joel Salatin

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I think that, unfortunately, people who are maybe threatened by feminism think that it's about setting your bra on fire and being aggressive, and I think that's really wrong and really dangerous.

Jenny Slate

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The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

Meat Loaf

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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Jean Toomer

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There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

Johnathon Schaech

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Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

Tony Bennett

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All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

Rob Portman

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My feet are dogs.

Rudolf Nureyev

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There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

Louie Gohmert

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It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.

Julia Michaels

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Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.

Joseph Bruchac

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My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Jonathan Krohn

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