Christen Press Quotes
I encourage all players to work to be their best, which includes looking for opportunities beyond the playing field.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.
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I'm a real food know-it-all.
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I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
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My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
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I encourage all players to work to be their best, which includes looking for opportunities beyond the playing field.
