Iman Quotes
The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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History's a resource.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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You've got a guy in a cape and tights running around fighting crime 24-7; this is not normal. But it worked because the kids loved it and the adults laughed with it.
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
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A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
