Kristaps Porzingis Quotes

I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.

Kristaps Porzingis

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• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
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• Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

  

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• Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

  

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• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  

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• I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.

  

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• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Think
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• I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
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• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
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• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
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• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  

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  • Myself
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• I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

  

  Val McDermid
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• Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.

  

  Abbey Clancy
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• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

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• People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Saying
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• While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.

  

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  • Said
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• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  

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• No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

  

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• When people tell stories that unite the community or the organization that they work for and illustrate the principles of that organization, those people rise in the social standing in that group. They rise in power.

  

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• Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

  

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• Sex was a trap, a snare. It was for animals.

  

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• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • Fear
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• I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Organization