Pearl Cleage Quotes
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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I'm a bed monster.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.
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Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
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I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.
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We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
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I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
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Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.
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You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
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Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.
