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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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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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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As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
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My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my parents were funny, so I think that I always felt comfortable using comedy in my real life.
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Imagine that we didn't know the chimpanzee, that all we knew were those bonobos who have sex all the time and are peaceful and female-dominated and that people would say that this is our only close relative. I think we would have totally different theories about ourselves and our background. But, of course, it didn't happen that way.
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This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
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I never felt sidelined, I was supported by my friends, my family and my team. I always knew I could do it. I had confidence in myself.
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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.
