Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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I was a host and a busboy and a barback.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Interviewer: 'So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?' Jeff (after a long pause): 'Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.'
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If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
