Paul Pierce Quotes
There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.
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The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.
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There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.
