Haile Selassie Quotes
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm evangelical.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'
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Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?
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If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
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I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
