Forest Whitaker Quotes
I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I wanted to create a bridal collection that is both a natural extension of the mainline eveningwear but, at the same time, reflects the opulence of such an important celebratory event.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
