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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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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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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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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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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What is the price of justice? What is the price of justice? When bail is set unreasonably high, people are behind bars only because they are poor. Not because they're a danger or a flight risk - only because they are poor. They don't have money to get out of jail and they certainly don't have money to flee anywhere.
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.
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That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.
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There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.
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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.
