Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.
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I look at Hank and he nods and I nod and for a brief second I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
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I'm a strong believer in the things that I want to do.
