Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
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You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.
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I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
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'We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.
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I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
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I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.
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The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.
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There's a misconception in my opinion... and it's that we Latinos have to go do an American album, an English album, an Anglo production, to cross over.
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On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.
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In America, one of the biggest problems we have with China is the illegal dumping of steel and aluminum into our markets. I have fought against that as a senator. I've stood up against it as secretary of state.
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I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.
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Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
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I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.
