Jeremy Lin Quotes
My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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A little exposure to a city like Sulaimani will help Trump understand that the Middle East is a much more complex place than he seems to believe. Perhaps Trump could even give a speech at the American University in Sulaimani, just as President Obama did at Cairo University early in his first term.
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The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
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One example that has hurt me is that of Aung San Suu Kyi. I admire her a lot, but her unwillingness to protect the Rohingiya Muslims shows how intolerance has seeped into politics and the level at which it has seeped. It immobilises politicians.
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We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.
