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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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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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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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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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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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
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If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened is that the identity of a Muslim woman especially is being equated to this piece of cloth on her head. And in that ideology there's a very fundamental assumption that people need to think very deeply about, which is do you believe that a woman is too sexy for her hair?
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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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.
