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"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion."
"There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline."
"It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor."
"Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country."
"If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend."
"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."
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"And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights."
"Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England."
"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."
"What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example."
"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
"Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to."
"Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it."
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
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