Lee Daniels Quotes

'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.

Lee Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

Jill Scott

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I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

John Caudwell

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Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

Andrew Greeley

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In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

Roisin Murphy

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For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

Mira Nair

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I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.

Janet Varney

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I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

Joss Whedon

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Football can generate excitement and bring people together.

Didier Drogba

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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Claudio Reyna

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Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

Willie Stargell

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The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Peter Guber

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