#considered

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#conditions #considered #dolphin #duplicate #however

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star. ↗

— Arlene Dahl

#comedy #considered #hollywood #i #i always

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#always #bound #considered #down #even

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#because #been #class #class clown #clown

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#about #being #connecting #considered #favorite

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#beauty #believes #centuries #considered #does

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father. ↗

— Ang Lee

#disgraceful #father #film #study

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#always #because #been #considered #going