Red McCombs (Billy Joe McCombs) Quotes
Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!
Quotes to Explore
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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Just know what's inside your food.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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The majority of my audience has always been women.
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Everybody thinks you're wrong and that you're a kid, and hence, you should shut up. Such reactions hurt me. I can think for myself.
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If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.
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Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.
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I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
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I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
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Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!
