Forest Whitaker Quotes

I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

Forest Whitaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1961

Topics

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What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

Trent Reznor

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Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Tom Lehrer

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I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

Tom Cruise

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My mother met my father at a Roy Acuff concert.

Rodney Crowell

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I love being Bob Marley's son because he's a great man.

Rohan Marley

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A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Monica Crowley

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In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

Jonathan Krohn

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Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Don Tapscott

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I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

Derek Walcott

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I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

Bruce Springsteen

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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

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I don't understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.

Pep Guardiola

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