Nido Qubein Quotes
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I choose to express myself.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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What force is more potent than love?
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
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If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
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Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
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There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.
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Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.
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If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
