Laurence Fishburne Quotes
When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.
Quotes to Explore
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.
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'...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'
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China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.
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An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
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One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections.
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Who we are, not just the services and products we provide, creates money.
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I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.
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When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.
