Kaoru Quotes
Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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Be your biggest competitor - challenge yourself each day to be better than you were yesterday.
