Lenny Wilkens Quotes
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
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Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
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A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
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Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars.
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To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.
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Seeing sites and features in places where we never looked or never thought things might exist is causing archaeologists across the world to think deeper about their sites or entire cultures.
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(On Standards & Practices): 'Where are your standards?....Stupid to retarded, is that the level of standards you’re trying to put out to America?'
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If you want it, you've got to give it.
