Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes
One family, one nation, indivisible. That mentality is essential for our salvation.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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There was such a realness about Elvis. He never really changed from that humble boy from Tupelo, Mississippi. He became this huge star, but he always remained that Southern boy.
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The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.
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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.
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One family, one nation, indivisible. That mentality is essential for our salvation.
