Derek Luke Quotes
He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.
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If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.
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He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win.
