Marlon Wayans Quotes
I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.
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A lot has been done to improve safety and soundness and confidence in financial markets and financial institutions, a lot of which was necessary.
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I deserve a mom.
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I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.
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I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'
