Diogenes Quotes
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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When you feel your family is being threatened and hurt, you speak up. And then you put your head down and go back about your business.
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Since Kate Middleton came around, some people think I'm related to her, but unfortunately, there's no connection.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.
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If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
