“I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.”
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“When I first started performing, some people were there just out of curiosity. I think that happens less often then you'd think, but when it is happening it's very obvious and I can tell what's going on. I had some of that in the beginning, but I think that ultimately I got a pretty strong fan base based on just my personality alone, and my honesty, my music. So it wasn't based on anything else, and I did notice if someone else came looking for something else, they'd probably leave, or complain it was too loud or something.”
“It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.”
“It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.”
“When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.”
“What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?”
“Is my name dorothy? No Then why do u think munchkins could help me?”
“Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.”
“You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?" "Dangerous," said the hidden girl, without a second's hesitation.”
“I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.”
“My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.”
“It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.”
“The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.”
“I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.”
“I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.”
“I think the world has moved on.”
“The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for decades and it's got the prisons filled with lots of young people who sometimes come out destroyed for having half an ounce... We should approach it through education and health issues rather than a brutal reaction... There is need for change in policy, but it has to start with debate and discussion... I think the whole approach has to be reviewed.”
“I think the generational change is going to be so important for Africa that we really should encourage and push it as much as we can, because some of these younger men and women, who are men and women of their times, and are also connected to the rest of the world, wouldn't even know how to behave in the way some of the old leaders do.”
“It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.”
“I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.”