Alfonso Ribeiro Quotes
If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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I describe it as anti-profiling. It's not that I want certain people profiled – I just want us to admit that certain people require less scrutiny, and Jerry Seinfeld is one. When you see a famous celebrity go through security, treated as though he may just have become a jihadist when no one was watching… It's crazy. It is security theatre.
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Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
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A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.
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When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
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There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.
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If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
