Rickey Henderson Quotes
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
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Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.
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I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
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I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.
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'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office.
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In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!
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I was the first person from my family to enter films. So, everything connected with films was new to me, including fans and fan clubs.
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You've just got to have it, man. Like, in this game of football, you can tell when you look at film who's more passionate about the game.
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I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.
