Aja Naomi King Quotes
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Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a soulful voice that feels like it's from a different era, I mean, it felt so fresh and unique, and that was something that opened my eyes and made me believe that it's not always about churning out the same thing in this industry.
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Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.
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From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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My hair routine is to let someone else do it.
