Jaylen Brown Quotes
In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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My hunger is always there.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Garry Kasparov -
Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.
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Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.
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In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.
