Malcolm X Quotes
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'
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I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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Even our beliefs have become trend statements.
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There is good and there is bad, and then there are mothers.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
