Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes
When I go places, I'm very much spotted, but I'm definitely ready for it and the opportunities it's going to bring.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
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You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
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forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums
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When I go places, I'm very much spotted, but I'm definitely ready for it and the opportunities it's going to bring.
