Laurence Fishburne Quotes
Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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I was born with an evil face.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
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Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
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Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!
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We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
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Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates.
