Morey Amsterdam Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
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I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
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You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.
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It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door
