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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

It's good to dream, and I was born a dreamer.

I had to deal with it so often, I found ways of making a point against racism. When I played against Real Zaragoza, they chanted like monkeys and threw peanuts on the pitch. So when I scored, I danced in front of them like a monkey. When the same thing happened against Real Madrid, I scored and held my fist in a Black Power salute.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

There is nothing more valuable than to be healthy and to have the hope of living a better day tomorrow.

I'm an only child, and I don't mind being alone.

All my coaches will tell you that I am a great professional.

I learned how much determination I have and that no matter what the score is, anyone can come back.

There are times when you get several great, exciting roles; there are times when you don't.

There were no clippings of Ambedkar. The only thing I had was a two-and-a-half minute film which I saw countless times. Nobody knows how he walked, how he spoke, or how he behaved. I had to conceive all those things in my mind. I had to work a lot on the make-up, too.

Everyone has ups and downs. You can't always get exciting roles.

I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy.

Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

I believe in myself, because I believe anything is possible.

Venus is a walking, living, breathing legend.

I don't consider any film of mine bad. I give all my films the importance they deserve. I look at all my roles with the same kind of seriousness.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

My life and career is my own adventure.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.