Freddy Adu Quotes

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

  

  Nas
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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
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• You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
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• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
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• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
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• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
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• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
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• In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  

  Lance Reddick
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• If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

  

  Alan King
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• I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it's like, well, why not? There's so much to be angry about.

  

  Aja Naomi King
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• When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
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• I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

  

  Freddy Adu
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