Djimon Hounsou Quotes
As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
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If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
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My whole life has been one theme of self-sacrifice for my investors.
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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
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As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
