Forest Whitaker Quotes

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

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• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

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• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

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• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

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• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
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• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

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• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

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• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

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• I'm not super into sports.

  

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• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

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• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  

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• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

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• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

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• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

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• The Jews are always up for a laugh.

  

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• My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

  

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• In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

  

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• Are we happy that 99% of all new income is going to the top 1%? Are we happy that one family in this country owns more than the bottom 130 million people?

  

  Bernie Sanders
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• If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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