Troy Polamalu Quotes

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

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• I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Never
  • Gay
  • Being

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Live
  • Character
  • Blessings

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
  • Funny

• We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Humanity

• I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stop

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Up
  • Different
  • You

• One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Enemy

• I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Hand

• My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• I think for a lot of us, you know, what 'Hamilton' gave us the opportunity to, what it gave me the opportunity to do, was to go, 'Here's what I've learned in 35 years.'

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Opportunity

• I like the idea of having a superordinary life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idea

• I was in two very horrible bands.

  

  Colin Hanks

• I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

  

  Joe Haldeman

• Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Trying
  • Football
  • Player