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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When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.
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I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity.
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Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.
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Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
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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.
