Laurence Fishburne Quotes

It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger.

Laurence Fishburne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 30, 1961

Topics

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I was a weird kid.

Jill Sobule

WeirdKid

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

Joely Fisher

LearningDayI AmPeopleEvery Day

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.

John McCormack

SuccessLiveNightLongCareerNow

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

John Updike

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My sister keeps me grounded.

Amanda Seyfried

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I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

Tonya Harding

LifeUglyFatYouNeverAnything

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

Russell Peters

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For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.

Ross Kemp

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As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.

Michelle Yeoh

YouWantMoviesAudienceContent

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

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I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

Judd Apatow

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The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.

Don Shula

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