Gilbert Arenas Quotes
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
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I want to be the best at whatever I do. I don't care who gets in the way.
