Stephen Carter Quotes
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
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We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
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I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.
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No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.
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Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
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I personally would have preferred if the Fed had been a little less aggressive.
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Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.
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To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
