Morris Chestnut Quotes
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.
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My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.
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Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.
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I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.
