Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes
You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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Faith is important to me.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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I have always thought I was the best ever player.
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
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He came, bringing with Him the knowledge that God is a Being of infinite goodness; that the service required of mankind is not a service of form or ceremony, but a service of obedience.
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Give me victory or give me death!
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You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.
