Andre Holland Quotes
I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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We just here to do our job.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
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I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.
