Marlon Wayans Quotes
So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?'
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
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So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?'
