Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes
I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.
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I have friends say, "Don't you want to have a little you?" The jury's still out on that for me. I don't have a definitive answer, but I do know that I can look back on some of the things I've worked on and some of the things that have literally come out of my imagination and be just as proud of it as if I had created a person. I feel like that shouldn't be of any less value. It can't be because it's what my life is, and I don't want to make it smaller or more palatable just because society tells you to. If you can get comfortable with sacrifice, then you are having it all.
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When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
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You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.
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I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.
