Sanaa Lathan (Sanaa McCoy Lathan) Quotes
You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I love New York. Love it.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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I'm a wandering gypsy.
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Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I don't consider myself to be a quote-unquote 'good girl'. I'm not prim and proper and polite. I'm very honest, and I love talking about sex, or people's deviances. I love psychology. I like listening to or talking about any personality traits that are unusual. That's what I like about acting.
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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.
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The cock does not crow till it has thrice flapped its wings; the parrot in moving among boughs never puts its feet excepting where it has first put its beak. Vows are not made till Hope is dead.
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I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country.
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I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
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The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.
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I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed.
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You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.
