Taryn Manning Quotes
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I don't eat red meat.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
