Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
I don't choose parts. I choose filmmakers. I'm done trying to make a statement with a character. What happens is, I craft a performance from the beginning to the end of the character. Then I release it to the director, and he interprets what I gave him.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.
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I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I don't choose parts. I choose filmmakers. I'm done trying to make a statement with a character. What happens is, I craft a performance from the beginning to the end of the character. Then I release it to the director, and he interprets what I gave him.
