Jermain Defoe Quotes

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

Jermain Defoe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 7, 1982

Topics

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Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world.

Ji-Hae Park

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When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

Jesmyn Ward

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When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Matthew Vaughn

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Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.

Jeff Goodell

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I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Amelie Nothomb

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I started competing in cross-country when I was seven years old.

Tora Berger

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Every movie that I've picked, from my first film on, has been considered by everyone to be 'career suicide.' And I have an amazing life. I have an amazing career. I work with artists. But I'm not making 'Spider-Man.'

Michael Pitt

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I've been surfing since I was a kid.

Luke Hemsworth

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The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the 'Don't Buy This Jacket' campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space.

DeRay Mckesson

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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Denis O'Hare

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Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.

Condoleezza Rice

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I try to stay in shape and am always consistently working out.

Chuck Liddell

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