Geoffrey Holder Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.
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I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.
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I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
