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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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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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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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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The beauty of having an LLC in today's world is No. 1, you have the ability to act and react as nimbly as need be to create change, and you have the ability to invest politically, in the for-profit sector and the nonprofit sector simultaneously.
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My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
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It's important to go out on the pitch and make a fantastic performance.
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If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.
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Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
