Vin Diesel Quotes

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

Vin Diesel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 18, 1967

Topics

FailureHomeDreamsYour DreamsMe

It wasn't always easy - getting dumped by my female friends for their newfound boyfriends, husbands, girlfriends stung; I felt like a jilted lover, heartbroken and wondering what I'd done wrong. But it was also easier to forgive them, to accept what time and energy they were willing to offer, even if it was less than what I wanted.

Jenna Wortham

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If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

Robert Glasper

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My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

Amy Tan

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If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here.

Troy Garity

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I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.

Deepika Padukone

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Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Clifford Stoll

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Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Susannah York

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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Paulo Coelho

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I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

Tim Robbins

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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Noam Chomsky

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