Newton Lee Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
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The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!
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When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.
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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
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I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
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I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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People that know me know I'm very good about doing my own thing and minding my own business.
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If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.
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I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
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I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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The future is arriving sooner than we imagine.
