Djimon Hounsou Quotes
We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I just want to do my job.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing - fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.
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A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
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I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.
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In Russia, you really learn about a person.
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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
