Forest Whitaker Quotes
It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
