Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.
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I am a Buddhist.
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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I'm a registered independent. I don't really believe in political parties. Bottom line: Mitt Romney's tax policy helps me. But I can't stomach seeing somebody go hungry or somebody not being able to get an education because I want more. So, I'm supporting Barack Obama.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
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In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.
