Laurence Fishburne Quotes
I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.
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Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.
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When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
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I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job.
