Kawhi Leonard Quotes

I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

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• Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • You
  • Story
  • Lose

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• 'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Christ
  • Birth

• I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • War
  • Government

• Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Want
  • Wind
  • Green

• Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Deep

• I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

  

  Banks
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Pretty

• Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Father
  • Strong

• What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Pain

• After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Never
  • Care
  • Old

• I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Me
  • Humans
  • Waves

• When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Different
  • Moments
  • Look

• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Career
  • Short
  • Strive

• It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. I am grateful and happy to be alive, and still be able to continue with my work, if only just. My work seems to me more important than ever.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Work
  • Important
  • Long

• Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Best
  • Sports
  • Training

• I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Business
  • Friendship

• My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Parents
  • Culture
  • Mexican

• What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Teacher
  • Sense
  • Popular Singers

• God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Blessing
  • Material
  • Abundant

• I want to play against the best, and that's what I'm doing, just going out there and being focused, just competing every possession.

  

  Kawhi Leonard