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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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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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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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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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.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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If you want learning, you must work for it.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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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.
