Jason Kidd Quotes
As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Coffee is my water now.
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Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.
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...makes my TV work look professional.
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As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
