Reginald VelJohnson (Reginald Vel Johnson) Quotes
You have to believe in yourself. You have to go out there and love what you are and who you know you are in terms of your craft.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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My life may be much happier to-morrow.Hunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.
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If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
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You have to believe in yourself. You have to go out there and love what you are and who you know you are in terms of your craft.
