John Cena Quotes
By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
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By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
