Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
For it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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But I think we need the international market.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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I love creative people.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
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There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
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One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!
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The thing is, I'm a competitor by nature. I like to compete.
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We could be playing anybody the first game. We'd still have a sour taste in our mouths.
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For it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.
