Mia Hamm Quotes
Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.
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Until I don’t lose, until I am not defeated such allegations will continue. People who have been trying to defeat me for the past 12 years have been using all their strength. They couldn't give me even a scratch. This is their ego problem.
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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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I feel really good in the teacher role.
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You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
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What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by the bears.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
