Chauncey Billups Quotes

I always wanted to retire a Piston anyway. That's where I stayed the longest and had most of my success. I always wanted to be remembered as a Piston.

Chauncey Billups

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessAlwaysRetireRememberedHad

I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.

Maxine Peake

PeopleThinkCareStrangeWay

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Maya Angelou

DreamsMeFlyCareTake CareFence

There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

John Hillcoat

LoveDisciplineEyeThinkCinema

'Pose' makes the case that it's important to have some sort of family structure, even if you have to create one. You know, if I go back home for a while, my mom will be like, 'Oh, I didn't really throw you out the house.' And I know so many other LGBT parents who don't really own or talk about the rejection, and it prevents healing.

Angelica Ross

FamilyHomeHealingParentsMomYou

Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.

Jeff Minter

InternetYouNiceYearsLittleBeen

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

Amanda Harlech

LoveFailureLiveChildrenYouWant

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.

Stephen Kinzer

TodayImportantFirstResourcesWell

To be in a show like 'Miranda' that captures everyone's imagination is amazing, but it's hard when people can't see beyond that. I started travelling to North America because 'Miranda' was so popular in the U.K.; I always knew I wanted to challenge myself and not go for the obvious roles.

Tom Ellis

MyselfChallengeImaginationPeople

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

Rob Glaser

CoolYouPhonesPrettyWhereJust

Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly.

Jon Taffer

BusinessPowerDecisionsYouCrisis

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

Diane Ladd

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I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!

Debra Messing

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