Jim Valvano Quotes
Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
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The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other
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I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.
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Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
