Daryl Franklin Hohl (Daryl Hall) Quotes
If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.
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People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.
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That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
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No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.
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If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
