Staying Quotes - Page 22

• They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Nba

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• When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

  Mike Tyson

  Humble, Priorities, Trying

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

  Dennis Miller

  Addiction, Sober, Century

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.48, Main Street Books

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• Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.

  Linus Roache

  Dad, Criticism, Spirit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

  Tessanne Chin

  Successful, Thinking, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.

  Kandyse McClure

  Summer, Mom, School

  "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Divorce, People, Hollywood

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• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Unhappy

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

  Derek Sivers

  Stay Strong, Moving, Challenges

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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• I would never be happy with just coming to TV tapings, not working house shows, and just getting by, staying in the shadows. I'm proud of the fact that I can turn chickenshit to chicken salad.

  CM Punk

  House, Shadow, Proud

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel. I'm kind of boring.

  Britney Spears

  Stars, Hate, Reading

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't think it's particularly useful to be going to another country and staying in a classroom and just studying in the classroom. What's important, I think, is to get immersed into the local economy.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Country, Thinking, Important

  "Robert Dolan Innovates Michigan’s MBA Program". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 13, 2009.

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• Just make sure you're staying true to yourself, and do what you think is good in that craft or field [of yours] and then let everything else fall where it falls.

  Brian Regan

  Fall, Thinking, Crafts

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• I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast as possible, more or less to get away from my family life. I ended up staying in my home state and fell in love with it. I ended up having a beautiful relationship with my family over time and it was the best decision I've ever made.

  Hope Solo

  Beautiful, Home, Play

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

  Margaret Deland

  Hard Work, Quality, Interest

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mean, Males, Female

  "Gingrich's 'Piggies' Poked". www.nytimes.com. January 19, 1995.

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• To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Odds, Hatred

  Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

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• The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

  R. C. Sproul

  Passion, Exercise, Weekend

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• I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

  Susan Minot

  Two, Three, Months

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• Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.

  Peter Ralston

  Hands, Mastery, Ends

  Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.24, North Atlantic Books

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• I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

  Elana Dykewomon

  Strong, Mean, Home

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• I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Morning, Kids

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• I feel good about the fact that I finally found something I love. I never lived in one place for very long - that's the way my whole life has been. I was always packing and moving around, staying in Canada, Kentucky, Jersey, St. Louis - it all helped because I was always learning new accents, experiencing different environments.

  Tom Cruise

  Moving, Kentucky, Long

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  Committed, Backgrounds, Observers

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