Freddy Adu Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
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What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
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The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
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One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.
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I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.
