Taye Diggs Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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You either are or you're not.
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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Making everything more efficient should make everybody happier.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
