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I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
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We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.
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I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.
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I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly.
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I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.
