Kevin DeYoung Quotes
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
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Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
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That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
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Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.
