Antonio McDyess Quotes
I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.
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Many people think that being a graphic designer means going to an expensive art school and buying expensive software that will cost you thousands of dollars. This is so far from the truth. There are hundreds of online education centers that offer top-notch graphic design training.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.
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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Quien hace un paraíso de un pan, de su hambre hace un infierno.
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We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
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My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until the cows came home. You couldn't pull her away from it.
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The invention of typography confirmed and extended the new visual stress of applied knowledge, providing the first uniformly repeatable 'commodity,' the first assembly-line, and the first mass-production. (p. 142)
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.
