Ja Rule Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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I've never seen 'Gone with the Wind.' I don't know if that's something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.
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I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
