Dat Phan Quotes
When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.
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Honesty will never break you.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.
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I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what they could do when they aren't leading us from reality.
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I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?
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I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.
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I love diversity.
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When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.
