Kevin Connolly Quotes
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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My dad was disappointed in me because I was obese, and he was a sports guy. As a result, I spent a lot of time in that basement. I could go down there and escape and be whatever I wanted to be. I had a huge fantasy life. It always involved vengeance.
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Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
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Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.
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I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, Thats what I want to do for a living when Im older. Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well.
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It's amazing what we remember as sports fans, right?
