Derek Jeter Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I talk every day about doing the right thing.
-
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
-
Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
-
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
-
Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
-
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
-
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
-
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
-
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
-
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
-
We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
-
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-
Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
-
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
-
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
-
Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
-
It's so easy to look foolish online.
-
I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death with dignity legalised in California, the idea being that so goes California, so goes the rest of the U.S., at least.
-
I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
-
I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
-
The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.
-
I can see how people work out to feel better.
