Jeremy Lin Quotes

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

Jeremy Lin

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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

Jesse Jackson

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It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber

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It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.

Andre Ward

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I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

Mawra Hocane

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Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did.

Amor Towles

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I am from the planet of elegance.

Ron Carter

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Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Masaharu Morimoto

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I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Michelle Shocked

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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lucian Freud

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My mom worked as an education director.

Josh Gondelman

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My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.

Domenico Dolce

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I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

Colin Trevorrow

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