Trevor George Smith Jr. (Busta Rhymes) Quotes
At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I no longer limit myself.
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
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Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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Strange thing, this television.
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Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
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The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.
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I heard this one rumour that I have a small penis. That's just fuckin' ridiculous.
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At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
