Derek Jeter Quotes
If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
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I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.
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The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.
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The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.
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If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.
