Derek Luke Quotes
I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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I'm always independent. No boss.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
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The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.
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If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
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In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.
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When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, 'A daytime soap? It'll kill your career!' Now they'd trade places with me in a heartbeat.
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Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.
