Slim Whitman (Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.) Quotes
The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
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Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.
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Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?
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When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!
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That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.
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As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.
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Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.
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I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.
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I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
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I think someone who would watch this would think there is something wrong with me and something wrong with my friends.
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The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.
