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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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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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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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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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
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One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.
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Back in the '60s and '70s, data were scarce, and while analysts knew that companies with fat gross margins lagged those with thin gross margins early in bull markets - and overachieved in the later phases - they couldn't do much about it.
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When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
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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.
