Kamaru Usman Quotes
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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You never say never. That's one of the lessons I've learned.
