Donald Glover Quotes
You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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It's such a tremendous honor to redefine what is possible and inspire people. I just want to do that as long as possible.
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There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.
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Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.
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Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
