James Lecesne Quotes
Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
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The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.
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Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
