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 body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.
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The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
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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.
