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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Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.
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But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
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I use my clothing choices as a way to express how I feel.
