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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What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
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I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I wanted to see if I could win a championship in San Antonio.
