Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes

The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an enemy.' And it's hard. It's really hard, though, when you're coming up. It's something that you have to teach yourself and learn.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 20, 1988

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I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

Andrew Motion

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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

Maurice Sendak

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I never felt the GDR was my home country.

Angela Merkel

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The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

Roy Ayers

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What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.

Cliff Chiang

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I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.

Claire Denis

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I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.

Brie Larson

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Everyone is an athlete. You want to go hiking, you want to go biking, you want to go jogging or for a walk? You're automatically an athlete.

Ali Krieger

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I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Peter Diamandis

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Peace Pilgrim

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When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.

Tom Bergeron

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