Jeremy Lin Quotes

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

Jeremy Lin

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• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Food

• I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Communication

• There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Musicians

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • She
  • Kitchen
  • Grandma

• One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• I want to be an activist professor.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Want
  • Professor
  • Activist

• The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Money
  • Why
  • Decision

• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Beyond

• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Question
  • Never

• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Rest
  • Acting

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Heroic

• Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Life
  • Claim
  • Predestined

• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • War
  • Death
  • Question

• Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

  

  James Mackintosh
  • Good

• I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Good
  • Forever
  • Risk

• Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Work
  • Aggressive
  • Obnoxious

• My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • School
  • Friends
  • Night