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“I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.”
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“I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I just want to know if I'm truly not in the NFL, it's because of talent. Let it be because of my talents. But you've got to prove that I can't play this game. If you look at the film, clearly I can. So, I'll leave it at that.”
Source : "Michael Sam: ‘I’m not the only gay person in the NFL’" by Charean Williams, www.star-telegram.com. March 26, 2015.
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“I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.”
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“American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.”
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“Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?”
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“Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies.”
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“I'm not conflicted. Because I know. There's me, and there's the show.”
Source : "Leaving the Fold; Act One". "This American Life", episode 258, www.thisamericanlife.org. January 30, 2004.