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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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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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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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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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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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen
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If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
