Forest Whitaker Quotes
You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
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In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,That snores when you pick it up.If the ghost cries, they carry itTo their lips and soothe it to sleepWith sounds. And yet, they wake it upDeliberately, by tickling with a finger.
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I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.
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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
