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If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

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• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• I love Star City - it is my home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Love
  • Home
  • City

• I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Working

• In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Communism

• It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Funny
  • College

• Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Work
  • You
  • Copy

• By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Way
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  • Will

• There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Sun

• I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Professional
  • Gentleman

• Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Increase
  • Dominate

• I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Question
  • Feel

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Risk

• Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Art
  • Understanding
  • Marriage

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Striving

• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Courage

• For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

  

  Andy Whitfield
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Found
  • Intelligence
  • Spirits

• Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Music
  • Band
  • Making

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

  

  Larry Merchant
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