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I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

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If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Andrei Platonov

PeopleThinkAct

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

WisdomManWiseProudYouVanity

When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

Jeffrey Kluger

ChildrenBestParentsWindLegacy

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

Stedman Graham

YouQuestionEqual24 HoursYour

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

Shimon Peres

ServicePublic ServiceMoralMust

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

Trevor Dunn

CarSearchRememberYouNowOut

Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

Ron Wyden

ChangePoliceStepInternetKnow

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Mike Singletary

HeartBestRespondPlayersWho

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.

Jason Mitchell

GreatCultureDayMePerformance

The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

Jann Wenner

ChallengesInternetNewsHighGoing

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

Don McLean

FatherMusicParentsPeopleMeWall

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Diablo Cody

HopeMyselfFindPossibleAlways

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