Forest Whitaker Quotes
College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
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When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
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Who would have thought that somebody Latino was going to be singing with Beyonce at Coachella? Years ago? Nobody. But I did believe in me. So, that's what I want to do: keep inspiring people as much as possible.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.
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When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.
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College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.
