Damon Wayans, Jr. Quotes
Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
