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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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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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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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.
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I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.
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A good deed hidden in silence dies.
