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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.
Garth Brooks
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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.
Sam Smith
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Ed Koch
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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.
Wadada Leo Smith
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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.
Kara Walker
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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.
Walter Dean Myers
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
Dan Aykroyd
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
Uday Kotak
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
Barton Gellman
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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.
Major Owens
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie Robinson
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser
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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.
Campbell Scott
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
Adam Hamilton
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. Rahman
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
Dan Gilbert
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It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
Walter Annenberg
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Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
Charlotte Bunch
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Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.
Asha-Rose Migiro
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He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I encourage all players to work to be their best, which includes looking for opportunities beyond the playing field.
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