Derrick Rose Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
-
I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
-
I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
-
To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
-
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
-
When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
-
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
-
I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
-
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
-
I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
-
I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
-
Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
-
If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
-
Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.
-
With respect to the function of the calciferous glands, it is probable that they primarily serve as organs of excretion, and secondarily as an aid to digestion.
-
It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
-
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
-
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
-
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
-
I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.
-
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
-
My mom and I, we have trust within each other because at one time in our lives, we were kind of all that we had, you know? My mom had me, and I had her.
-
On 9/11, those of us who do the jobs that I do, flew without a net for hour and hour and hour after end. And then you hope and pray that you've had the experience to be up to it. Because then you're editor, analyst, reporter, correspondent, ringmaster, the whole thing.
-
When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
