Lena Waithe Quotes
I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.
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I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
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As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.
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I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
