Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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I definitely at times notice a difference in service when I go out. You know, I can walk in to grab a cup of coffee or walk in to have lunch or dinner, and people definitely seem on their best behavior, which is funny, or I start to see people clean up around me, which I always find really, really amusing.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.
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I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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I love working in America!
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he has passed....
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Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
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I felt very calm and controlled. That's what you've got to feel and do when it's time to win. It's easy to say, hard to do.
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
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Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
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I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.
