Forest Whitaker Quotes
I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.
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When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
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I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
