Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
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I knew it was right to make time for myself to have adventures and fulfil dreams.
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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
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I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just cherish them and try to make the most of them.
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Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
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I don't have any skeletons in my closet.
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Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.
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When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
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Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
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I wanted to be like Jo March in 'Little Women.' I wanted to be married to a man who would give me lots of sons.
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Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
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The holidays are only holy if we make them so.
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It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.
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It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.
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Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
