Lane Kirkland Quotes
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
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I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
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I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.
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For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.
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The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.
