Blair Underwood Quotes
That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if I would not have faced those obstacles I would not have been the man that I am. It make my stronger in a way and it helped me to forge the person that I am right now.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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Surround yourself with positive people.
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I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
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That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.
