Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes
Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.
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I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
