Things Quotes
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In order to be one of the best defensive linemen in the NFL - which I am - it's doing things that other people aren't willing to do.
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Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.
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In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.
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I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.
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With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.
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Sometimes things aren't logical. Sometimes things don't follow timetables.
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I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
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Most things get steadily worse.
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On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.
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Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
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A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.
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The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it...
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.
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There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.
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Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.
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Things can only go so far before you can't take them any further for them to be exciting.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.
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Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.
