Taraji P. Henson Quotes
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don't feel like that's me.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
