Cappie Pondexter (Cappie Marie Pondexter) Quotes
It's hard arriving just before the game, but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
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I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
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In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
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However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
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The art of victory is learned in defeat.
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Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, 'How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let's all come up with a solution together.' We work better as a team.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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It's hard arriving just before the game, but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.
