Lisa Leslie Quotes
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
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Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
