Laurence Fishburne Quotes
Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?
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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.
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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
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Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.
