Danny Glover Quotes
I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!
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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
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That's my style of fighting. I am throwing down, you know? Having fun. And that's my approach to life.
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Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
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I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Yet I have a reputation for being cooperative with the press. That's because when I do give an interview, I'm willing to tell the truth about what I do for a living and how goofy it is sometimes - and how volatile it can also be.
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I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
