Lena Waithe Quotes

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

Lena Waithe

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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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  • Different
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• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
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  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
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• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
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• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

  

  Cam
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• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  

  Gary Neville
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• I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
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• I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.

  

  Wale
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• Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

  

  Action Bronson
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• To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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• Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.

  

  Elliott Abrams
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• We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.

  

  J Balvin
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• All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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• Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

  

  Lena Waithe
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