Chad Pennington (James Chadwick Pennington) Quotes
To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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The fans treated me royally.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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Some people would like me to be round again.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
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I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
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We haven't done one thing that anybody else can't do.
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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Don’t talk to yourself in such a way that if you did so to a friend, it would end your friendship. If you had a friend dealing with the same things, you wouldn’t berate that person, say, ‘You’re not working hard enough,’ ‘You suck,’ or ‘You’re not as good as [whomever].’ You’d offer your friend encouragement, you’d try to point out all the things your friend did right, and how much progress your friend had made. You should do no less for yourself. Be very careful how you talk to yourself. Because you are listening.
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The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
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To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.
