Harold Perrineau Quotes
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
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With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.
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One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'
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Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
