Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they'll like me.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.
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We have to be confident. If we are not you can't win.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
