Johnnie Cochran Quotes
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!
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I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
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For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.
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For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
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It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
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The nicest part of the prize, perhaps, is the effect on my friends and family. Each of them feels proud and happy to have the relationship with me that they do. In a way, it's as though they received an award too, and I like that very much.
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If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
