Sam Cooke Quotes
Let me tell you 'bout a place a omewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay, twistin' the night away...Here they have a lot of fun, puttin' trouble on the run. Man, you find the old and young, twistin' the night away. They're twistin', twistin' everybody's feelin' great. They're twistin', twistin', they're twistin' the night away.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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I don't think a lot of people are calling me to play doctors and lawyers, which is fine with me. I can put a suit on, but I don't really like to.
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I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
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We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.
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Let me tell you 'bout a place a omewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay, twistin' the night away...Here they have a lot of fun, puttin' trouble on the run. Man, you find the old and young, twistin' the night away. They're twistin', twistin' everybody's feelin' great. They're twistin', twistin', they're twistin' the night away.
