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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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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.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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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.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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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.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.
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Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
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The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.
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'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'
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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.
