Michael Clarke Duncan Quotes
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
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Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?
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Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.
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When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.
