Eriq La Salle (Erik Ki La Salle) Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
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There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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I don't think I would run for president.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
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I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.
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Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
