Mario Van Peebles Quotes
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.
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Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.
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I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
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If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.
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I'm not in business to make money.
