Kevin Gates Quotes
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
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Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
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I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
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The world has gotten so interwoven.
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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'
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I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.
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What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
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Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.
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When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
