Duane Chapman Quotes
I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
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I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
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There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
