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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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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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
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It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.
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You belong somewhere you feel free.
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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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.
