Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong.
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Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.
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I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
