Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I've been very lucky.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
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Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
