Laurence Fishburne Quotes
It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I take my work seriously.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
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My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face!
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When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.
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The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?
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It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger.
