Jason Kidd Quotes

I thought I was going to be a Spur.

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• I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • World
  • Hell
  • Lord

• I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Long
  • Concerned

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • You
  • Going
  • Customers

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Problem
  • Always
  • Credit

• To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Country
  • House
  • Dream

• When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Book
  • First
  • Wrote

• You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • House
  • Morning

• I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Myself
  • Deep
  • Moral

• When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?

  

  Kajol
  • Love
  • True
  • Feeling

• One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Good
  • Water
  • Wine

• Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art
  • Suffering

• I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Hate
  • Doubt

• The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

  

  Bob Iger

• When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People

• When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • World
  • Music

• With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Up
  • Parents
  • March

• I thought I was going to be a Spur.

  

  Jason Kidd