Jalen Brunson Quotes
I was always taught that pressure comes when you aren't prepared or didn't work hard enough.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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I never left doo wop.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
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Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
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...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'
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I was always taught that pressure comes when you aren't prepared or didn't work hard enough.
