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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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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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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I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
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You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
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But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
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Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.
