Jimmy Walker Quotes
In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
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I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
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Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
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The issue of how the game is played is something that's constantly being reviewed internally with the Players' Association, with the general managers, and it's something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis.
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Every movie is different. Sometimes with movies, there are roles you should just leave alone and relax with and keep it light. And there are other ones where you want to work with an acting coach and really delve in there.
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In Little League back in Oklahoma, I struck out 14 batters in a six-inning game, and we won the state championship.
