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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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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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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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
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If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
