Tyrese Gibson Quotes
A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
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I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.
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A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.
