Jack Keane Quotes
Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.
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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.
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I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
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I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.
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I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
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Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.
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I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that.
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.
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If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
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Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.
