Alfonso Ribeiro Quotes
I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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We hold that the one and only one true basis of society is the frank recognition of these rights of self-ownership; that is to say, of the rights of control and direction by the individual, as he himself chooses, over his own mind, his own body, and his own property, always provided, that he respects the same universal rights in others.
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!
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I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
