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 think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.
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If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
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Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me.
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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
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Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.
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It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.
