Chadwick Boseman Quotes
The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people - to black people.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.
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If you really want to be an actress, go to school. I think it's great what people are doing on YouTube, but don't forget to go to class. Have a vision for yourself, but don't forget to do the work.
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There have been times when we've been playing, and people who were sick were totally healed.
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When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.
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If you're passionate about something, go for it, because people are great at what they love and when they're the happiest.
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The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people - to black people.
