Forest Whitaker Quotes

To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

Forest Whitaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatProgressWorldTrueTryFail

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Stephen Colbert

MeWinnersAlumniUniversityJust

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.

Robert Dallek

ControlGunLongFindGun Control

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

Roger Andrew Taylor

PeopleProblemSometimesBandAround

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

Rosalind Wiseman

WomenAngerPeopleBuildInsideOff

I'm trying to learn to really use space. My philosophy is that every time you interrupt space in a very confident, secure manner, then music happens.

Roscoe Mitchell

MusicTimeSpaceConfidentLearn

You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

Mike Gallagher

SuccessSillyYouMeasureThreeUp

I believe in campaigning for health care, not warfare.

Mimi Kennedy

HealthBelieveCareI Believe

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Louie Anderson

MoneyVegasYouPlaceKnowQuit

For sure, my sneakers gotta match my jacket.

Dexter Darden

SneakersJacketSureMatchGotta

I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.

Dawn Richard

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Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

Christopher Walken

MeLookingWillTryOverRare

When I had my cancer, the chemotherapy took my hair away. So then I decided I would just keep it short, and this is my signature now. The great thing about it is that I am a bit of a chameleon, so you can put a wig on me and I look totally different.

Anthony Warlow

GreatI AmMeHairShortLook

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