Alfonso Ribeiro Quotes
I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.
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You ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. 'I believe God created me in one day.' Yeah, looks like he rushed it.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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When I started wrestling in the eighth grade, I just fell in love with it, and started shifting my focus more to that. I considered playing in college, but it made more sense for me to wrestle, because I weigh about a buck fifty.
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All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'
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I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
