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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Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
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We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.
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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
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His uncle had provided Adrian with some incredibly valuable lessons in how English society functioned. One of those lessons was that being married to the wrong person was worse than being dead.
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I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.
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A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s.
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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.
