You Quotes
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
