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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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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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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Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.
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I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
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When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
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I became a successful trap artist and we killed it in the music scene with my brothers, and guess what? It ended up really happening.
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My mom reminds me that all things are possible.
