Chauncey Billups Quotes
Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
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There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming.
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[While] my life started taking on all the problems of addiction. So that took me off into an area where relationships were absolutely impossible to handle on any real level. . . . Even communicating with other people was impossible.
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I am against any reconciliation with Israel.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
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You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.
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Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.
