Bokeem Woodbine Quotes
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
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I play well with everybody.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)
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I'm done with cool. I've been done with cool for years.
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The second group consists of people of action who spend their lives in the public or political sphere. Their goal is fame or honor—recognition. The problem, however, is that they are keener on being recognized, than on actually being good people. What matters is the accolades and not the reason for.
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I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.
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It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
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There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
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Music is math; music is spiritual.
