Lisa Leslie Quotes
When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.
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I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
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One of my core values is diversity of everything.
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When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.
