Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
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The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.
