George Crook Quotes
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.
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My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.
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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
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I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.