Chi McBride Quotes
Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.
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I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.
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A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.
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What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.
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We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.
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Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
