Anthony DeStefano Quotes
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.
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True wisdom always leads us to please God.
