Allen West Quotes
Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that's what makes it special each and every day.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that's what makes it special each and every day.
