Joseph Lelyveld Quotes
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.
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As long as you focus on getting better at one thing a day it accumulates.
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More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
