Langston Hughes Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
