Blair Underwood Quotes
I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
Iris Apfel
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
Sam Waterston
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
Tamar Braxton
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
Larry Flynt
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
Nancy Pelosi
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
Gautam Gambhir
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
Danai Gurira
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
Barton Seaver
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
Edith Stein
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
Hans Rosling
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
Laura Miller
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
Maggie Lawson
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Charles Williams
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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
Cheryl Strayed
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We thought the hardest thing in the world was to get a record deal, then the hardest was to get a No. 1 record, and then the hardest thing is to stay at the top. It's a lot of work.
David Bryan Bon Jovi
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.
Blair Underwood