Joseph Abboud Quotes

The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.

Joseph Abboud

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I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

Joey Lauren Adams

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When I look at myself, I'm not a big man - I'm a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it - pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker - so I'm excited to break that stereotype.

Joel Embiid

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I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

Jennifer Nettles

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For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.

Ana Ivanovic

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As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

Stewart O'Nan

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The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

Robert Vaughn

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I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.

Mary Roach

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Before I starred in 'Million Dollar Baby,' I wasn't really a boxer. I just worked hard to learn as much as I could before we were there on set.

Mike Colter

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India somehow constantly rivets and inspires me, and I feel very relieved to have come from this country which has a very 'lifeist' approach to living fully, no matter what one has or doesn't have.

Mira Nair

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When I'm doing an appearance somewhere and taking questions from the audience, I can always count on: 'Tell about the guy who died on your show!'

Dick Cavett

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The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.

Christine Tsai

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Consider this: Whenever someone is bothering you, and they just won't let up, and they won't listen to anything you have to say, what do you tell them to get them to shut up and go away? 'You're right.' It works every time. But you haven't agreed to their position. You have used 'you're right' to get them to quit bothering you.

Christopher Voss

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