Latrell Sprewell Quotes
Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.
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When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
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Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It's not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.
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Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?
