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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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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.
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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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All people are the same; only their habits differ.
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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.
