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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The surface is all you get of me.
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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 feel a brand should be free.
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I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that.
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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.
