Michael B. Jordan Quotes
My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I am happy in Paris.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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I want to be the best.
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I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
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As mayor in an executive position, I have to dress more like an executive, which has been delightful.
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I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
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My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.
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A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?
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Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job, but I'm not sure that - I'm not sure that there will be a champion movement in Congress to do that.
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I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'
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I don't ever go into a fight wanting to hurt someone. I just want to show them that I am better than them, and if they get hurt, it's part of the sport.
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My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].
