Barry Jenkins Quotes
My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.
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You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.
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I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me.
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I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave of Osiris, the god.
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Old answers never perfectly suit new questions, except in the most formal, logical circumstances.
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My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
