Barry Jenkins Quotes
Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Politics is a good thing!
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I always knew I had something special.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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Norman saw on English oak.On English neck a Norman yoke;Norman spoon to English dish,And England ruled as Normans wish;Blithe world in England never will be more,Till England's rid of all the four.
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Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.