Steve Stockman (Stephen Ernest Stockman) Quotes
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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'The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...'
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result
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I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.
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That was the most important thing to me: making sure 'Gardner Elliot' was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time before filming to chat with Peter, the director, to create this character.
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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
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As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.
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There's nothing like volunteers who believe in a candidate and a cause.
