Edgerrin James Quotes
People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.
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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
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When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.
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In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.
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That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
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People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.
