Courtney B. Vance Quotes
Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.
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I'm all about unity and loving your neighbor... If somebody told me when I was growing up that the music I was listening to was stupid, and I listened to them, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
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So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
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Le destin des Etats est arbitre du leur,Et l'ordre des traités règle tout dans leur cœur.
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Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
