Chauncey Billups Quotes
The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.
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I'm tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I've got that mama vibe. I don't look at it with an ego.
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Our approach to continuously investing in the scales and capabilities of our people helps us meet the needs of our clients and enhances our ability to attract the very best talent in our industry.
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And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?
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The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.
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The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process.
