Jeffrey Wright Quotes
I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.
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The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.
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There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.
