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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.
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Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
