Derrick Rose Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
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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.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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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.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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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.
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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.
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Once settled, I hope to produce masterpieces, because I like the countryside very much.
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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.
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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.
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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
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How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?
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When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
