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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I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.
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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.
