Aaron McGruder Quotes

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

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• You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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  • Responsibility

• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Done
  • Night

• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
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  • You
  • Try

• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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  • Work
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• You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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  • Know

• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

  Maddie Hasson
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• Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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  • Self-Worth

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
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  • Family
  • Business

• People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

  

  Dan Scanlon
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  • Movie

• You can't get emotional about your work.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • You
  • Emotional

• Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Up
  • You
  • Feel

• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
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  • Good
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• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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  • Country
  • Education

• In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

  

  Parker Posey
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  • Know
  • Cinema

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
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  • Light
  • City

• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • America
  • Help

• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rest

• I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Calm

• The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

  

  Arthur Goldberg

• Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Failure
  • Chaos
  • Frustration

• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Women
  • Money
  • Team

• Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Control
  • Fiction
  • Rights

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
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