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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Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
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I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.
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When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.
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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.
