Derek Jeter Quotes
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
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Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
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I'm sort of a gym buff. It's a stress relief for me. But I only go for 20 minutes at a time.
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I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
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More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
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When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
