David Lammy Quotes
Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
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I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
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But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
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Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest.
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Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.
