Johan Santana Quotes
I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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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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The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
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Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.
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I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
