B. D. Wong Quotes
Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
