Dwayne Johnson Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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The premise of insurance is to spread the risk. It's the premise of homeowner's insurance, of car insurance, and of health insurance. It's one reason why it's important to have insurance when you're healthy, so that when you get sick, you won't go sign up just when you get sick, because that increases the cost for everyone.
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When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
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Ain't nothing like a good cry.
