Forest Whitaker Quotes

I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

Forest Whitaker

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• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

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• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

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• I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

  

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• How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?

  

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• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

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• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

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• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

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• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

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• Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.

  

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• I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

  

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• Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.

  

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• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child