Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Europe can be saved.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.
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When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
