Eileen Ford Quotes
The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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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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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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I did nothing at the behest of the NFL, for the NFL, against the NFL.
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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
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The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.
