Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

Laurence Fishburne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.

Anderson Cooper

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And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Jeff Daniels

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These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

John Sandford

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I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.

Alton Brown

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The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos

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I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

Roger Tory Peterson

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Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.

Ron Carlson

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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Jonathan Swift

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I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'

Bruce Springsteen

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The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

Paul Theroux

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I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger,' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.

Reuven Rivlin

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