Kamisese Mara Quotes
'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
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I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.
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Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.
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'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
