Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
Anna Deavere Smith
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
Nas
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
Wayne Rooney
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
Gabriel E. Gomez
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
Im Dong-Hyun
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
Patrick Dempsey
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
Nancy Meyers
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
Victor Kiam
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
Baz Luhrmann
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I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'
Nadia Comaneci
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I had to make lifestyle changes and stick to them for the rest of my life. For instance, I've had to give up bread, rice, sugar, and oil completely.
Adnan Sami
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He will come up to the Capitol, as far as we know right now, by a procession probably Wednesday morning and lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday and Thursday, and, we think, a funeral at the National Cathedral on Friday.
Dennis Hastert
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I want my projects to be great, of course. The talent has to come from a diverse pool. Because that's the world we live in.
Marc Platt
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
Anna Deavere Smith
