Johnnie Cochran Quotes
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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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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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I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
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I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.
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Come to the sunset tree!The day is past and gone;The woodman’s axe lies free,And the reaper’s work is done.
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Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
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Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.
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People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.
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Sadly, I never really tell people what I think. So it's a real treat to play a woman who's able to speak her mind unabashedly.
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The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.
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If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.
