Jack Dempsey Quotes
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.
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Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
