Chris Cubas Quotes
The goal is doing stand-up on TV somewhere, which is what I'm working on. Something on latenight or Comedy Central, but - I dunno, something. It could happen, it could not happen.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
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I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who would become my activist staples - their words helped me grow up and taught me how to be bold and courageous. By studying them, I came to understand that being young and queer and black would not be easy.
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It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
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There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
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The goal is doing stand-up on TV somewhere, which is what I'm working on. Something on latenight or Comedy Central, but - I dunno, something. It could happen, it could not happen.
