Barry Jenkins Quotes
I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.
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All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.
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I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.
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Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, and having milk every day played a part in that.
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I'm not a fan of giving to charities. I have a few I support, but the overhead and inefficiencies really bother me. Instead, I pay people's bills and help solve problems.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
