Ossie Davis Quotes
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?
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It's going to be an interesting dilemma for certain corporations. They've worked so hard to make themselves important in the way music goes out into the world, but it's completely irrelevant when people can get their music in a different way.
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‘Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end-not that I suppose one could do it-they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.’
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
