Warren Moon Quotes
There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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I don't care about losses anymore.
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.
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Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important.
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I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
