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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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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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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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
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With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.
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I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.
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Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
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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.
