Michael B. Jordan Quotes
In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal of those struggling to get their footing on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Yet raising the minimum wage hacks the lowest rungs off the ladder altogether. But economic logic doesn't wash with liberals who are intent on inflaming class warfare.
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We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'
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We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
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As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
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I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
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There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
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In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].
