Bill Hicks Quotes
I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, 'Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great.' He goes, 'What? I'm 28.'
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I don't go anywhere without clean shoes. That's one thing I've got from the navy.
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My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
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If you go to a restaurant with Tom Cruise, it's like walking in with Santa Claus. Everybody is in a better mood because he's there.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, 'Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great.' He goes, 'What? I'm 28.'
