Kawhi Leonard Quotes

I believed I could play in the NBA.

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• The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Team

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Funny

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Broken

• Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Men
  • Power
  • Man

• I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Know
  • Part
  • Conscious

• The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Done
  • Road

• And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Best
  • Player
  • Coach

• Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Light
  • Religious
  • Marriage

• Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Forever

• You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Reality
  • Stop

• There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Mirror

• As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Husband
  • Slavery

• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  

  John Milton
  • Silence
  • Bird
  • Beast

• Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

  

  Kathleen Blanco
  • Job
  • Education
  • Poverty

• I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Good
  • Trust

• I believed I could play in the NBA.

  

  Kawhi Leonard