Morris Chestnut Quotes
In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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Big Data is neither color-blind nor gender-blind. We can see how it is used in marketing to segment people.
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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.
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I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.
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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.
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In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.
