Bo Jackson Quotes
I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Writers are so important.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.
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I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
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I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
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People who are used to constant attention and flattery become inured to the merely pleasant and become "peak seekers." They expect the highs, and when their unrealistic goals or expectations are not met, they are not simply disappointed, they are devastated.
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To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.
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I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
