Jason Kidd Quotes
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.
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I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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Water.
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We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. We must see it as a part of our charge to help create economic opportunity so that the gap between the richest and poorest does not grow ever wider.
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Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.
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Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
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You can have the best riff in the world, but if the drums behind it just ain't vibing it, it's not gonna be the greatest riff, right? So you've gotta have someone there that can really bring that to life.
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Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways – making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love – in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".
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Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I wanted to see if I could win a championship in San Antonio.
