Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes
I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.
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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.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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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.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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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.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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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.
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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.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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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.
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If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
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I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
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As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.
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The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
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I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.
