John Singleton Quotes
All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.
Quotes to Explore
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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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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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
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Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.
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I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"
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When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.
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I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
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All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.
