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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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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 need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
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Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.
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Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered 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.
