Mo Rocca (Maurice Alberto Rocca) Quotes
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
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In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
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I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.
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To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
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When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.
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We start off pretty fast, but now we've got to be able to maintain. It won't get a chance to get like that, because I will not let that happen again.
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
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I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
