Amar'e Stoudemire Quotes
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.
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On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities to improve their economies and to help protect forest acreage.
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I didn't know anything about fashion. You would see me in the biggest sweater with jeans or the tightest elastic pants. Not nice clothes. My mom took me a lot to consignment stores when I was younger, and I never really got to go to fancy high-class stores, so... vintage was like a step up.
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If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck.
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To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
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Like basketball, fashion is hard work.
