Derek Jeter Quotes
The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.
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The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others
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I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.
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When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.
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The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.
