Jaleel White Quotes
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.
