- Nov 07, 2020
Look Quotes
On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.
The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?
- Nov 07, 2020
Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually met Adrian Peterson in high school. I look up to AP a lot. He's a great running back and we all know what he can do. That's definitely someone you want to model yourself after, especially at the running back position. He's a great one.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can't do that. I have a strike on my back. I can't have a normal job. So, I've got to fight for everything I've got.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.
- Nov 07, 2020