Dougray Scott Quotes
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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Time was God's first creation.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
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Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.
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I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
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It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
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It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.
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I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.
