Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Why did it have to be you? Every day, I’ll tell you a different reason.
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
