Chester Himes Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
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When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.
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I am always relaxed.
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The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.
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I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
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Unmarried women in their forties, with false teeth and tousled hair, aren't usually held in the highest esteem by our society. The feeling seemed to be that if I could be a success then anyone could!
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I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.
