Justin Timberlake Quotes
I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
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I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski -
You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?
