John Russell Quotes
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I have a very short attention span.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'
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We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we've got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.
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I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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I find the ball, and I think, 'Where's the ball going, and where do I need to go?' It just puts me back in the game, and it's the simplest thing, but it's become sort of like my soccer mantra. I simply use the ball as my focus point and move back into position, and the distracting thoughts disappear, and I'm right back in the game.
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The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.
