Malcolm X Quotes
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.
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Communication is always 'propaganda.' The emitter always wants 'to get something across.'
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I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
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In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
