Jeffrey Wright Quotes
I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.
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My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
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Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.
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Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
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I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.
