Amandla Stenberg Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I know all the critics.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.
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Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.
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I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
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My mom reminds me that all things are possible.
