Laurence Fishburne Quotes
On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.
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I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
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London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
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I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
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Although an inchoate liberty theory of freedom of speech has deep roots in Supreme Court decisions and political history, it has been overshadowed in judicial decisions and scholarly commentary by the marketplace of ideas theory. In this book, Baker critiques the assumptions required by the marketplace of ideas theory and develops the liberty theory, showing its philosophi ...
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I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really modern.
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Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.
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On a motorcycle, you can't really think about more than where you are. There's a freedom that comes with that - from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
