Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
I was a fan of football. I was more of a Raiders fan, but I knew who O.J. was. I knew The Juice, and I remember the Hertz commercials with him running to the airport and whatnot. So he was a highbrow celebrity in my eyes.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
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I was a fan of football. I was more of a Raiders fan, but I knew who O.J. was. I knew The Juice, and I remember the Hertz commercials with him running to the airport and whatnot. So he was a highbrow celebrity in my eyes.
