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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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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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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I've always wanted to be the center of attention.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
