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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Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.
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When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.
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When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.
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I use music as a medium to talk to people.
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... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
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When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
