quotes about Slacker

“There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.”

“Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.”

“He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely. Her smile had come through her eyes straight from her heart. He had known unequivocally that she loved him. He believed to this day that she had died knowing that he loved her. How could she not know? He had dedicated his life to never letting her doubt it.”

“Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.”

“Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.”

“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.”

“I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.”

“American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.”

“I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.