Manti Te'o Quotes
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
