Mia Hamm Quotes
I'm not someone who goes around the locker room before a game trying to motivate my teammates. I don't say a lot before the game. I don't say a lot in general. It takes too much energy to do that.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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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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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
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It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.
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I'm not someone who goes around the locker room before a game trying to motivate my teammates. I don't say a lot before the game. I don't say a lot in general. It takes too much energy to do that.
