Isaac Hayes Quotes
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
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I was always writing about the connection between man and nature. I grew up in a neighborhood that was right on the beach, but the beach was not like a beach you would imagine - there was a lot of pollution. And the most magical thing to me as a kid was sea glass, so I wrote about that a lot.
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You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.
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Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
