Lance Reddick Quotes
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
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In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.
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I'm always interested in the challenge of doing something new.
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Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
