Lena Waithe Quotes
It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.
Quotes to Explore
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.
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We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
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Profiting from being in the minority leads to interesting paradoxes. Rather diabolically, if all traders use the same set of rules, they will end up doing the same thing at the same time and cannot therefore be in the minority.
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I look at the time with you to keep me awake and alive.
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I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.
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It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.
