"If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice."

-- Kelly Corrigan

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“Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.”

Source : "Game On". Book by Emmitt Smith, abcnews.go.com. September 2011.
“Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.”
“Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.”
“Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.”
“But really itâ€™s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because theyâ€™re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people donâ€™t want your pity. They just want to be treated like everyone else. Mockery, when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. Itâ€™s the closest weâ€™ll ever come to true equality.”
“then he jumped.. I owe him so much. I needed him. I still do. But he's gone. He told me once that I shouldn't make people into heroes. He said that heroes didn't exist and that even if they did he wouldn't be one of them. which goes to show. he wasn't right about everything..”
“There's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Sometimes that's for economic reasons, because they want to build a supermarket there. The imam will hold a prayer and say let's get rid of the girls, but on the other hand they're all going there.”
“The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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