Keegan-Michael Key Quotes
Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
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Some of the things I've done are really special.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.
