Walker Stapleton Quotes
If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
