Jerry Rice Quotes
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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I don't do meetings.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.
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I never got into coffee.
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Inspiration is the key to everything.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'
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My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
