Samira Wiley Quotes
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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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 buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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I wrote 'Redefining Realness' because not enough of our stories are being told, and I believe we need stories that reflect us so we don't feel so isolated in our apparent 'difference.'
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I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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I grew up in the church.
