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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
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I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse.
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[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
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The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
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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.
