Kristaps Porzingis Quotes
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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I have 20 wigs at home that I play with.
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I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.
