Antwone Fisher Quotes
The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
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I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.
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I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.
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Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.
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The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.
