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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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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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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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.
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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.
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There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
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While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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People used to name me the Brazilian Pistorius. Thank God I'm not the Brazilian Pistorius any more. I'm Alan.
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I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.
