Rachel Nichols Quotes
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I don't care about winning an MVP - the MVP doesn't mean you're the best player in the league.
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It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.
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I maintain that attitudes do really precede propositions, feelings come before facts.
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After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.
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I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
