Omar Benson Miller Quotes
Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.
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God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
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Every outing is a learning experience.
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.
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Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.
