Taye Diggs Quotes
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
