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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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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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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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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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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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
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We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.
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Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.
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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.
