Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

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• Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

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  May, Making Changes, Bigger

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• Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Syrup, Pancakes, Causes

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• If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Opportunity, Use, May

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• You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

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  Meaningful, Want, Way

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• My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.

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  Dumb, May, Ass

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• Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Happiness, Money Can't Buy Happiness

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• Everybody has to learn that the world works in very specific ways, and you're not in charge of it.

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  World, Way

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Girl, Feet, Ass

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• If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Opportunity, Voice, Use

  "Making Hisssstory: Samuel L. Jackson talks about 'Snakes on a Plane'". Interview with Jeff Jensen, ew.com. August 18, 2006.

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• I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Gun, People, Shooting

  "Shooting: Samuel Jackson says fewer guns aren't necessarily the answer" by Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. December 16, 2012.

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• You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Booty, Duty, Please

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• The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Advice, Given, Equal

  "Samuel L Jackson: 'Now we got the movie stuff out of the way, let's talk about something serious'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.'

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  Fun, Snakes, People

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• What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Music, Thinking, Jazz

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

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  Goodnight, Skills, Knows

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• I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

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  Mistake, Mean, Recovery

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• Those that have loved longest love best.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Love, Best Love, Love Is

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• I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

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  Anger, Thinking, Space

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• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

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  Kings, Real, Thinking

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• I'm as serious as a heart attack.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Heart, Serious, Heart Attack

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• The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Men, Long, Certainty

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• Just because people don't trust people doesn't mean [they] don't like them. There are lots of paranoid people in the world. You figure out their personalities and make them work.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Mean, People, Personality

  "‘The Man’ Interviews: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy". www.hollywood.com.

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• People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Race, Lynching, Racism

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• I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Real, Simple, Actors

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• I trust most people. Not producers.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  People, Producers

  "‘The Man’ Interviews: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy". www.hollywood.com.

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