Bill Kurtis Quotes
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
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There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
