Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
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Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
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Our collective experience has shown that when women have the power to make their own choices, good things happen.
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Life is about choices. You ask the questions and you listen to the answers. Then you listen to your heart.
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The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
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I use my clothing choices as a way to express how I feel.