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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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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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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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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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 have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
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I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.
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If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
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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.
