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Laurence Fishburne

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VING RHAMES It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.
CHASKE SPENCER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pre...
BEBE REXHA It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes i...
BRIAN SETZER I am convinced that the merchandising of 'Star Wars' is something that has made it such a big part o...
STEPHEN SANSWEET Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN I don't think anybody is surprised by this. Over the last few weeks I think its become apparent that...
ALBERT LIN American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as...
ALEX TIZON I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional wr...
MITCHEL RESNICK I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that wi...
SAOIRSE RONAN Of course, it can be very upsetting to some, but others were not surprised at all. I think it has be...
CATHERINE MISKO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would thi...
NOAM CHOMSKY You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS It is some mistake. I am surprised and shocked at how the government has declared that it is bird fl...
ANURADHA DESAI We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't thin...
COURTNEY BARNETT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I was very surprised last fall at how many students used it.
JENNY EMANUEL It's become embedded in the culture that everyone is entitled to a little bit of luxury.
CANDACE CORLETT The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just pic...
KEVIN SMITH An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine D...
DONALD FAISON Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of ...
JARON LANIER It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I was very surprised to hear that at the time. This is why I would have another look at it.
ANDY LIMERI The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of ...
ARTHUR HILLER I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
ADAM MCKAY In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an ...
DANIEL WU Pop culture is like our subconscious.
HANNA ROSIN Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is ...
HANNAH ARENDT Chris Evans has embodied Captain America as well as any actor has ever embodied an iconic pop-cultur...
KEVIN FEIGE 'We Are Pop Culture' is my clothing line for women that started with just T-shirts. The clot...
CHRISTINA MILIAN It's been a really exciting project. I think people will be surprised at how poignant the entire exh...
JOYCE ROBINSON Pop culture is the greatest singular threat to original thought and imagination, that is if you have...
MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - ...
XAVIER RUDD But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?
CHRIS CLEAVE, EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures...
GILLIAN FLYNN I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
UWE BOLL I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in ...
MICHELLE OBAMA I think everyone was surprised at the lack of crowds. There was no one in the neighborhood.
CRAIG MONTGOMERY He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's...
ADAM WEST Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's makin...
LAURA MVULA Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growin...
JHONEN VASQUEZ I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I think it speaks volumes how lost the Democratic Party has become in Texas and how dispirited Democ...
DEAN BARKLEY The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
BILL GRIFFITH Spain is where I think the most exciting cuisine is at the moment . It really has become this gastro...
ANYA VON BREMZEN I think they really connect across generations. I really find that pop music has really been the mos...
DAN GERDEMAN This reality show not only brought him back to the forefront of pop culture, but it positioned him t...
JAWN MURRAY I view that as a one-time phenomenon, but it sure is nice to have a one-time phenomenon that has cas...
BILL DEZELLEM I think this is a phenomenon that is really still peaking.
ERIK WHITEFORD They start at the very beginning. The whole account of Adam and Eve is a very romantic picture. I'm ...
GARY CHAPMAN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You ...
KURT LODER America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global cu...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they wer...
STEPHEN MERCHANT Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective...
IVAN REITMAN The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i...
PETE GALLEGO Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been tha...
ELIZABETH OLSEN Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
MARILYN MANSON Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.
RUPAUL I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.
ZACH GALLIGAN Microsoft is no longer the worst offender when it comes to sitting on patches. Oracle has taken that...
THOR LARHOLM See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.
COTE DE PABLO I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read...
CHARLIE ROWE Internet gambling has become a substantial phenomenon in the gaming industry space.
ANTHONY CABOT You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idio...
RHYS IFANS Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
TREVOR DUNN I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
LAURENCE FISHBURNE We were hugging each other like we always do.
LAURENCE FISHBURNE Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't s...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE She was 12 when we made this movie. She's this little girl as far as I'm concerned. My son just ente...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is n...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE It's inaccurate to talk about J.J. being a first-time anything. Just because he's telling stories on...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as importa...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see t...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE Everyone know is, soul does it or it doesn't exist it really doesn't matter. What does it matter is ...
DEYTH BANGER Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in dee...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We ...
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LAURENCE GONZALES Fantasy, myth, legend, truth - all are intertwined in the story that is Scotland.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Do I think the shareholders are in a better position today than yesterday? Yes.
LAURENCE PETTIT The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because othe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public...
LAURENCE STEINBERG Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.
LAURENCE STEINBERG The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, n...
LAURENCE STEINBERG We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in sc...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If they were to drink multiple glasses of this mixture or concoction, I think there'd be a potential...
LAURENCE SPERLING Some of this benefit we see now may be a combination of our increased awareness of heart disease in ...
LAURENCE SPERLING Mr. Knight doesn't have $107 million. It remains to be seen what becomes of Death Row.
LAURENCE STRICK He has no choice, the way these people have forced his hand.
LAURENCE STRICK He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.
LAURENCE WHITE It's often said that there are countries where bribery is a way of life, and that's still the case.
LAURENCE URGENSON This is an amazing and rare collection of Michael Jordan memorabilia that doesn't come along everyda...
LAURENCE TONEY We're not trying to displace (offline sales); we're trying to offer another channel. Our goal is rea...
LAURENCE TONEY I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the...
LAURENCE WHITE If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE The Internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder.
LAURENCE BELL The extension of the contract demonstrates our strong confidence in the Chinese aviation market and ...
LAURENCE BARRON It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is t...
LAURENCE BARRON It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, ...
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