Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes
One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
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Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.
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I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.
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Not once did I feel pressurised that I was stepping into Mr. Bachchan's shoes. I don't say I didn't feel the pressure of starring in a remake of 'Zanjeer,' but somewhere, that worked to my advantage.
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They the Beatles came backstage after one of my lectures, and they said to me: 'Even from an early age we have been seeking a highly spiritual existence. We tried drugs and that didn't work.' They are such practical and intelligent young boys that it took them only two days to find that Transcendental Meditation is the answer.
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What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
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I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
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Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.
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Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
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One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.
