Chauncey Billups Quotes

I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I never turned back from that point. That's what made it so sweet to me to win a championship after what I went through. I had to scrap and fight to get through it, and to reach the pinnacle made it even sweeter.

Chauncey Billups

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1976

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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

John Avlon

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I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

Jessica Pare

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I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

Meghan McCain

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The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Steven Rattner

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As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.

Sinead O'Connor

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I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

Skylar Grey

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When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day.

Trudie Styler

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I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

Tom Douglas

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My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

Liz Phair

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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

Alice Oswald

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How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.

Alicia Garza

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I was forever changed by my experience on 'Once and Again.' All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.

Susanna Thompson

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