Courtney B. Vance Quotes
I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I like to do Pilates.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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Too clever is dumb.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
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I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
