Troy Polamalu Quotes

I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

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• I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Week

• Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Always

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Cutting

• It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Business
  • Will
  • Advertising

• I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Live
  • Stage
  • Build

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Number
  • Vices
  • Moderation

• As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Me

• People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Time
  • Reading

• Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Sky
  • Drink
  • Shoulder

• There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Certain

• Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Passion

• No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Me
  • Make

• When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Career

• Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Wonder

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • School

• Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Eyes
  • Wife

• I was a funny kid growing up, and I did improv in college and went to Pratt Institute, but I did it very informally. It was just me and some of my friends goofing around on campus.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.

  

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