Earl G. Graves, Sr. Quotes
Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.
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I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.
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Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
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I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
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Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.
