Kobe Bryant Quotes

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

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• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Great
  • You
  • Depression

• It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Mother
  • Nice
  • Director

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Different
  • War
  • Political

• L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Band
  • Feel

• I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Kids
  • Stress
  • Anxiety

• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Prove
  • United

• The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Find

• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Family

• I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Listening

• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Woman
  • Rule
  • Her

• When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Different
  • Team

• I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Words

• My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Father
  • Potential
  • Philanthropic

• The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Girl

• I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

  

  David R. Brower
  • Time
  • Energy

• You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

  

  Kelly Rutherford
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think with this team we honestly worry about things other than the team concept, what makes up a good team. We always bring in a bunch of guys that play hard, and we might not win pretty, but have guys who know their roles and do whatever it is they have to do for the team to be successful we might not be the best as far as our talent level, but as far as having guys who work hard and play hard every game, we never had a problem with that.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Respect
  • Achieve
  • Mankind

• Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • Opportunity
  • Challenges
  • Pressure