Mahendra Singh Dhoni Quotes
The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
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Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
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LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious.
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Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.
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The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
