Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes

I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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• The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Live
  • Future

• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

  Kate Klise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Real
  • Pain

• Our lives teach us who we are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Teach
  • Lives
  • U.S.

• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  

  Francine Busby
  • American
  • Learn
  • Operations

• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • May
  • Found

• If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Best
  • Company
  • Longevity

• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Goals
  • Give
  • Him

• It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Way

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Most

• Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Evil

• If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?

  

  Fat Joe
  • You
  • Know
  • Gay

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Freedom
  • Single
  • Spiritual

• Being a veganist is good for your health, it's good for the environment, and it's certainly good for the animals, but it also has a powerful spiritual component. When you begin eating consciously, with compassion and thoughtfulness, you attain a certain lightness and inner peace, a sense of connectedness to the larger world.

  

  Kathy Freston
  • World
  • Good
  • Peace

• I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Forever

• Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that.

  

  Valerie Wilson Wesley
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Spiritual