The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My whole thing is that guys are working out and getting legs stronger and getting the upper body stronger, and the ligaments just aren't quite able to keep up.
Matt Harvey
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I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
Peter Temple
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Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.
Ella Mai
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I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
Nell Newman
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I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
Fede Alvarez
ChallengeThoughtKnowThreeUp
'Singh Is Bliing' came up to me as my dream role.
Amy Jackson
MeDreamUpRoleCame
I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.
Christian Slater
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I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
Shaquille O'Neal
FunnyMyselfThinkUpThingsGuy
We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
Cristina Saralegui
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I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.
Keith Haring
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Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
Dakota Johnson
WorkLoveWatchingExtraordinaryUp
I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.
Jodie Comer
DanceTheatreUpUsedSingLocal
It's up to the UFC. Whoever they put in front of me, I'll fight.
Stipe Miocic
FightMeUpFrontUFCWhoever
In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.
Bonnie Hunt
Growing UpEarlyGrowingTellUp
One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
ReputationKindUpOwnTrapWrapped
I've never been one of those guys who wants to put up titles and championships and run around and brag.
Big Show
RunNeverUpChampionshipsBeenWho
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
Jenna Fischer
LoveEndYouRealUpBig
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.
Anne M. Mulcahy
LoveBusinessGreatEnjoyWriteUp
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
Vladimir Putin
FamilyFatherMotherUpOrdinary
If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
John McEnroe
PeopleMeThinkingWrongWayUp
I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.
William O'Neill
GreatSchoolWayHardUpState
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
Paul Ryan
LivePlaceKindSameUpBelong
Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
Gary Allan
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