Djimon Hounsou Quotes
The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I believe that you should move and eat right.
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In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there are five different strains of Ebola.
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Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
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I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.
