Billy Kennedy Quotes
Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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I'm not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
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We do not want to leave Germany forever. Something I would not be able to manage at all, since my roots sit too deep in German soil.
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I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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The business always gets in the way of basketball.
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Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
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Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.
