Jimmy Reed Quotes
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that's very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it's very raw.
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The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.
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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
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I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'
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I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
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Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
