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 find that men are far more vain than women.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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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 not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
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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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I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
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I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
