Taraji P. Henson Quotes
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Strong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior - even the friendly ones.
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Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.
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That daydreaming mode turns out to be restorative. It's like hitting the reset button in your brain. And you don't get in that daydreaming mode typically by texting and Facebooking. You get in it by disengaging.
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Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
