Jason Kidd Quotes
My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
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Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
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This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
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There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.
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My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.
