Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'

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• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

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• I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

  

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• As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

  

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• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

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• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

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• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

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• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

  

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• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

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• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  

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• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

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• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

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• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

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• I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

  

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• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  

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• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  

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• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

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• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

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• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

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• I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

  

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• If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

  

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• And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

  

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• I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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