Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes
I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.
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It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.
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I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.
