General quotes
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If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
Sex appeal is not on purpose.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly.
We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people — black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants — to make up America.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data', has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career — how many tickets are sold.
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
