Forest Whitaker Quotes
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov
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I have a great office.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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We should all love animals.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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People like everything to work out, and anytime you don't make everything work out perfectly, you really are fighting against what most people are going to the movies for, especially in the summer.
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If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.
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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
