Udonis Haslem Quotes
It's very important to execute down the stretch and get the stops, but by the same token, we want to put the games away a little earlier.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
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I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.
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My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.
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I carry my own food around on tour; I permanently have carrier bags full of cereal and bananas.
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I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.
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Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.
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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
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I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.
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A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
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What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.
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A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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It's very important to execute down the stretch and get the stops, but by the same token, we want to put the games away a little earlier.
