Kevin Durand Quotes

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

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• I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
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  • Good

• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Wait
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• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Think
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• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
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• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
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• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
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• I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
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• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• Small aim is a crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

  A. C. Benson
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• Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

  

  Barry Diller
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• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
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• False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

  

  Charles Darwin
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• There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

  

  Hernan Cortes
  • Church

• Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.

  

  James Thurber

• I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • People
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• I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, How can we make this moment funnier?

  

  Jane Lynch
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• I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

  

  Kevin Durand
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