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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My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
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No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
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I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.
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I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
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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.
