Lou Diamond Phillips Quotes
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
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И если умирает человек,с ним умирает первый его снег,и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.
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If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!
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I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.
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Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.
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As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.
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I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.
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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
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Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.
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I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
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It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.
