Chief Joseph Quotes
I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
Quotes to Explore
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I don't drink coffee.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I'm a real optimist.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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There's not a lot of gay programming on TV.
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The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
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I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
