Nwankwo Kanu Quotes
Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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I'm totally myself.
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That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
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I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.
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Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.
