Pindar Quotes
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
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The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
