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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I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.
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When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it's going to take a lifetime to undo.
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Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.
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No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
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Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.
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Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
