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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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
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Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.
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When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes
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Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.
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Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.
