Jason Kidd Quotes
I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I ended up having my first girlfriend when I was 13, and she was obsessed with Justin Bieber. I remember watching the 'Baby' music video and being so jealous of him. So I posted a cover of 'One Time' on YouTube, and she loved it.
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Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
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I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.
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In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
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The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
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I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.
