Diogenes Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.
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Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
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Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.
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The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
