Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
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I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.
