Jeremy Lin Quotes
With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.
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Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.
