Kevin Young Quotes
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I love superconductors.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.
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President Trump can't vote for me. The people that sent me up here sent me up here to repeal and replace, 100 percent, the Affordable Care Act.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.
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People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.
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I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.
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