Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
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I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.'
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I don't think I would run for president.
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I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
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Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
