Chris Paul Quotes

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

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• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Water
  • Religion
  • Color

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Mean
  • Three

• I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Me
  • Virtue
  • Hard

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Culture
  • Play
  • Popular

• There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Story

• Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Help
  • Reality
  • Christmas

• People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

  

  Patanjali
  • Suffering
  • Failure
  • Ignorance

• I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Think
  • Short
  • Personal

• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Training
  • Psychology
  • Skills

• I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Acting
  • Stage
  • Say

• In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Children
  • American
  • Christmas

• The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Time
  • Travel

• I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Know
  • Me
  • Inspire

• Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

  

  Daniel Schorr
  • People
  • Present
  • Abuse

• Half of democracy is about just showing up.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Up
  • Democracy

• As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Stop
  • Training
  • Boy

• I remember what I was like as a teenager, with an enormous amount of energy and hormones. You have to be able to release it, and dancing is really an innocent way.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Remember
  • Energy
  • Teenager

• I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

  

  Chris Paul
  • People
  • Basketball