Forest Whitaker Quotes

In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

Forest Whitaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1961

Topics

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The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

Jennifer Grey

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Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.

Stephen Frears

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The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

Stephen Gardiner

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With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.

Simon Kuznets

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It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Shirley Henderson

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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison

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Fame is a beast that you can't control or be prepared for.

Tom Holland

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Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

Rita Rudner

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As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

Julia Hartz

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I began writing 'Outlander' in 1988, so the Internet as we now know it didn't exist.

Diana Gabaldon

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I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

Brittany Murphy

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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

Anthony Bourdain

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