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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Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
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I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
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I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.
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I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.
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I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
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True wisdom always leads us to please God.
