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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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
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My first assignment was 12 weeks in Afghanistan. After that, I covered the Indian election for two months. Then I got a phone call saying, 'Hey, we want you in Brazil,' and the same happened for Somalia.
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It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
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I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.
