Wes Moore Quotes
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
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I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.
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I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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I think Maje typifies that French vibe where it's simple items that are very practical, very wearable but also, like, incredibly chic and expensive-looking.
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He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!
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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
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Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
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I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
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When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.
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There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.
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Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
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I can't control what goes on; that's not my responsibility. My responsibility is to go play football. ... I take it as a low blow. I had to work. It wasn't handed to me, I had to get out and grind. It's a golden opportunity [to prove people wrong].
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Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
