Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

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• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Self
  • Conquer
  • Brainy

• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Work
  • Music
  • Genius

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Education
  • Stress
  • Student

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• I'm proud of my sexuality.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Proud
  • Sexuality

• My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Parents
  • Best
  • Always

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Everything
  • Someone

• When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Women
  • Experience

• At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Competitive

• I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Running
  • Morning
  • Look

• I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Want
  • Ever
  • Depend

• I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Proud

• It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Food
  • Crazy
  • Brain

• There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Work
  • America
  • Help

• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  

  Duffy Daugherty
  • Football

• Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • College
  • Football