Morris Chestnut Quotes
You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.
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A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
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It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush. A horrible gut wrenching thing, but it's exciting.
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After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
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You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
