Blu Cantrell Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I love simplicity.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.
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I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.
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But more overt sexual aggression may be the product of something few will acknowledge, at least on the record: Resentment. Off the record, in dozens of interviews over a period of years, male soldiers and officers have confided that many men resent women because they've been forced to pretend that women are equals, and men know they're not.
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I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.
