Boyd Holbrook Quotes

When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

Boyd Holbrook

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 1, 1981

Topics

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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

Joe Lonsdale

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To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Andreja Pejic

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Perhaps one day I will go into space.

Stephen Hawking

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When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.

Simon Bird

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I think culturally, even if you just talk about it in context, the standard of beauty has not included women of color. Period. Not just black women. If you are not a certain thing, there has not been space for you.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Robert A. Dahl

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Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

Ronnie Spector

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I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.

Don Rickles

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I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

Christian Lacroix

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Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.

Claire Messud

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But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

Bruce Johnston

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Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

Sylvia Plath

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