Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes
To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
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But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and values. Regarding the atomic bomb project.
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Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
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I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.
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To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.
