Lee Daniels Quotes

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

Lee Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

Andrew Shue

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In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

John Lahr

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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

Matt Groening

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If it's football season, all things sort of stop. I'm from Seattle, so I'll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

John Surtees

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As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.

Tony Dungy

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I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

Tom Jenkinson

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Trump has been fiercely mocked in the media since the 1980s. But Trump learned from someone to let all the mockery roll off his back, that the negative publicity was still publicity.

Michelle Dean

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I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.

Mo Farah

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My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

Jay McInerney

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You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

Dick Ebersol

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