"I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door."

-- Magic Johnson

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“The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.”
“The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another formscience is god explaining god through a human nervous systemisn't spirituality the same thing?”
“Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Catching Up With Venice Star Jennifer Damiano". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 31, 2013.
“God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.”
“Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.”
“When you're acting on TV, you want to keep it real.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There's a reason for this. The world doesn't want to acknowledge it either. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation.”

Source : "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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