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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I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way.
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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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What should a priest do with so fair a house?A prison may best beseem his holiness.
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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.
