Keith David Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I don't think you rule anything out when you go into a draft, especially if you think there's someone there who you think you can go get. Would you be willing to trade or make a move? I don't think we're afraid to do that--last year we did it. And I wouldn't rule something like that out.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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My biggest problem with everything going on is the lack of understanding and the lack of respect in this world.
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
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But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
