Edi Gathegi Quotes
I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
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I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs.
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Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.
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I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
