Forest Whitaker Quotes
About why he named his daughter True and son Ocean I want those names to be their destiny, for my daughter to be honest and my son to be expansive. I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing. … being called Forest helped me find my identity.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.
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Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.
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You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?
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It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.
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About why he named his daughter True and son Ocean I want those names to be their destiny, for my daughter to be honest and my son to be expansive. I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing. … being called Forest helped me find my identity.
