Brandon Spikes Quotes

You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

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• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
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• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
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• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Believe
  • American
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• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
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• If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.

  

  Jay-Z
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  • Music
  • Trying

• Ive always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.

  

  Marlo Thomas
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• You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.

  

  Pedro Martinez
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• There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

  

  Sigmund Freud
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  • Actions
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• The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
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• With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Faith
  • Christianity
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• You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

  

  Brandon Spikes
  • Force
  • Legs
  • Trenches