Taraji P. Henson Quotes

I prefer doing feature films.

Taraji P. Henson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1970

Topics

DoingFeaturePreferFilms

Philly will be the place for me for my whole career.

Joel Embiid

MeCareerPlaceWillWholePhilly

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

John Edgar Wideman

TruthPeopleTrueRiskFairFiction

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LoveCharacterSympathyLivingDuty

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Steve Jobs

PerspectivePeopleRichValuesKnow

To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

St. Vincent

MusicDayRoadThreeListenSound

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

Michael Phelps

ChangeChange The WorldWorldI Can

My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

Mona Simpson

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

GreatRestYouBadMannersFlattery

I didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much.

Dolores O'Riordan

LifeLovePetYourselfEndYou

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

PeopleToleranceNarrow-MindedMost

I think what we really want to do is to create a real soccer nation. We want to have kids really wanting to play the sport.

Christian Pulisic

ThinkSoccerCreatePlayWantReal

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.

Ariel Sharon

LiveNew YorkPeoplePlaceNewWant

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