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One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

~Melvin Van Peebles

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I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

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If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

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There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.

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Scars are the price you pay for success.

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As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.

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The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.

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You have to not let yourself believe you can't. Do what you can do within the framework of what you have, and don't look outside - look inside.

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Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

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A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 21st, 1932

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